ALLIED CHEMICAL CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 347-56.

305 F.2d 433 (1962)

ALLIED CHEMICAL CORPORATION v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

Rehearing Denied October 3, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Becker, New York City, for plaintiff. Lawrence A. Coleman, New York City, was on the briefs.

Theodore D. Peyser, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Louis F. Oberdorfer, for defendant. Edward S. Smith, Lyle M. Turner and Philip R. Miller, Washington, D. C., were on the brief.


WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff sues for a refund of excess profits and income taxes paid for the years 1945, 1946 and 1947. Two issues presented are: first, whether attorneys' fees paid in 1945, 1946 and 1947, in opposing certain proceedings brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (hereinafter, S.E.C.) were deductible as "ordinary and necessary expenses in carrying on a trade or business", or as capital expenditures incurred in the realization of a capital gain...

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