GUFFEY v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 62-61.

222 F.Supp. 461 (1963)

Patrick GUFFEY and Betty Guffey, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Oregon.

September 14, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Ashley Phillips, Medford, Or., for plaintiffs.

Sidney I. Lezak, Acting U. S. Atty., and Donal D. Sullivan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Portland, Or., Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Edward S. Smith and Joyle C. Dahl, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.


SOLOMON, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, taxpayers, filed an action to recover income taxes alleged to have been overpaid for the years 1954 through 1958 because the District Director of Internal Revenue had denied them a deduction for the loss sustained when a contract for deferred payments received upon the sale of their residence became worthless.

On July 7, 1948, plaintiffs purchased a house in Portland, Oregon, which they occupied as their residence until September...

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