J. B. N. TEL. CO., INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 77-1950.

638 F.2d 227 (1981)

J. B. N. TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided January 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Libero Marinelli, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gilbert E. Andrews and Ann Belanger Durney, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and James P. Buchele, U. S. Atty., Topeka, Kan., were on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

James M. Caplinger, Topeka, Kan., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HOLLOWAY, DOYLE and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.


HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellee J.B.N. Telephone Co., Inc. (J.B.N.) claimed a deduction on its 1972 federal income tax return for a loss resulting from the abandonment of obsolete telephone equipment. The Internal Revenue Service disallowed the deduction and issued a notice of deficiency on the ground that J.B.N. simultaneously acquired and abandoned the equipment and therefore had no basis in it. J.B.N. paid the deficiency, filed a refund claim, which...

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