BELL v. C.I.R.

No. 17181.

320 F.2d 953 (1963)

M.H. BELL and Bettie Lou Bell, Petitioners, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

August 12, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry T. Light, Little Rock, Ark., for petitioners.

Ralph A. Muoio, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent, and Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Lee A. Jackson, Morton K. Rothschild, Washington, D.C., were with him on the brief.

Before VOGEL, VAN OOSTERHOUT and RIDGE, Circuit Judges.


VOGEL, Circuit Judge.

The petitioners, who are husband and wife, brought this suit in the Tax Court for redetermination of an alleged deficiency in their income tax for the year 1952 in the amount of $1,929.02. Petitioners seek to deduct as a business expense certain attorney's fees paid in the taxable year of 1952.

Petitioner Marion H. Bell, the husband, was and is a certified public accountant. During the taxable year in question he was practicing at Fort...

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