JAMES PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. C. I. R.

No. 7469.

331 F.2d 344 (1964)

JAMES PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

May 6, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watson Washburn, New York City, for petitioner.

Harry Marselli, Atty., Dept. of Justice (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Melva M. Graney, and Alan D. Pekelner, Attys., Dept. of Justice, on the brief), for respondent.

Before BREITENSTEIN, HILL and SETH, Circuit Judges.


SETH, Circuit Judge.

Income tax deficiencies were assessed against petitioner by reason of a deduction taken in 1958 in the amount of $139,200.00 for uncollectible notes held by the petitioner. The notes were given to the corporation in 1933 by a former officer who, in 1927, 1928, and 1929, had embezzled approximately $367,309.52 from the taxpayer-corporation. The taxpayer had previously taken deductions for the total amount of the embezzlement in the three years...

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