FAYEN v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 68428.

34 T.C. 630 (1960)

CARL F. FAYEN AND ESTATE OF NANCY P. FAYEN, DECEASED, ROBERT W. T. PURCHAS, ADMINISTRATOR, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed June 30, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur L. Nims III, Esq., and Ross B. Abrash, Esq., for the petitioners.

Arthur Pelikow, Esq., for the respondent.


MULRONEY, Judge:

The respondent determined a deficiency in income tax against petitioners for the year 1953 in the amount of $1,366.10. Petitioner Carl F. Fayen was the trustee and life beneficiary of a trust and the only issue in the case is whether the amount of $4,664.37 which he paid into the principal of the trust, pursuant to a judicial settlement of a surcharge suit brought by remaindermen of the trust, is an allowable deduction under section 23(a)(1...

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