Jarvis v. Heiner

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

In his income tax return for' 1923, John A. Bell, later a bankrupt, made deductions for a loss and a bad debt purporting to have been sustained and suffered in that year, and in his return for 1924 he made a deduction for a loss sustained in that year. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue disallowed all deductions and assessed deficiency taxes against the taxpayer for which the Collector filed preferred claims on behalf of the government against his bankrupt estate. On exceptions they were referred to the referee who, by two reports, made sundry findings. On review the…