SHAW v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 70226.

18 T.C.M. 728 (1959)

T.C. Memo. 1959-167

William Erby Shaw and Mittie Shaw v. Commissioner.

United States Tax Court.

Filed August 28, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence Steele Bowen, Esq., 218 Emakcee Building, Greenville, S. C., for the petitioners. Robert A. Watson, Esq., for the respondent.


Memorandum Findings of Fact and Opinion

FISHER, Judge:

Respondent determined a deficiency in petitioners' income tax for the calendar year 1954 in the amount of $2,498.59.

The sole issue presented is whether a loss sustained by petitioners from an unpaid loan is to be deducted as a business bad debt or as a nonbusiness bad debt.

Findings of Fact

Some of the facts have been stipulated and, to the extent so stipulated, are incorporated...

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