COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. Wright

ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner seeks review of a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals allowing the taxpayer a deduction from his federal income tax for the year 1922, which deduction petitioner had disallowed.

The facts found by the Board are, bñefly, that, in 1902 the taxpayer purchased 250 shares of corporate stock at par of $100, which on March 1,1913, had a value of par; that the corporation encountered financial difficulties, and in 1922 the bankers who had been carrying it, and to whom it was largely indebted, refused longer to carry it and threatened' bankruptcy proceedings unless…