LORCH v. C. I. R.

No. 1097, Docket 79-4051.

605 F.2d 657 (1979)

Joseph LORCH and Hannah Lorch, Petitioners-Appellants, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee. Michael T. HARGES and Janet G. Harges, Petitioners-Appellants, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Bailin, P. C., New York City, for petitioners-appellants.

Daniel F. Ross, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gilbert E. Andrews, Ernest J. Brown, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, MANSFIELD and GURFEIN, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Joseph Lorch and Michael Harges appeal from an order of the Tax Court approving the Commissioner's assessment of deficiencies in their federal income tax returns for the year 1970.1 Finding that petitioners were not entitled to certain ordinary losses claimed under IRC § 165(c)(2) on their 1970 returns, we affirm the decision of the Tax Court.

The facts are undisputed. In January of 1962, Lorch and...

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