AMES v. C. I. R.

No. 78-2637.

626 F.2d 693 (1980)

Laurence S. AMES and Joy A. Ames, Petitioners-Appellants, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1980.

Rehearing Denied September 26, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Burke, Ross, Woodson, Millard, Burke & Woolverton, Pasadena, Cal., for petitioners-appellants.

Robert E. Lindsay, Washington, D. C., argued, for respondent-appellee.

Before SNEED and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges, and TEMPLAR, District Judge.


SNEED, Circuit Judge:

The petitioners-appellants, the Ames, claimed deductions for the depreciation of improvements built to a lessee's specifications, and the respondent-appellee Commissioner disallowed them, asserting that the appellants assumed too brief a useful life for the assets. The Tax Court agreed. On appeal the taxpayers argue that the Tax Court misunderstood the substantive law, imposed too heavy a burden of proof, and erred in its principal finding of...

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