McMAKIN v. HOOKS

Civ. A. No. 4038.

202 F.Supp. 294 (1961)

M. L. McMAKIN, Plaintiff, v. Gilbert C. HOOKS, District Director of Internal Revenue, Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. Kentucky, at Louisville.

December 14, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe A. Wallace, Louisville, Ky., for plaintiff.

William E. Scent, U. S. Atty., Louisville, Ky., for defendant.


BROOKS, Chief Judge.

By this action the taxpayer seeks a refund of income taxes and interest paid as a result of a deficiency assessment based upon the Commissioner's determination that no portion of an attorney fee paid by the taxpayer in 1957 in connection with a divorce action and property settlement was deductible in his income tax return for that year as an ordinary and necessary expense "for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the...

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