Greenbaum v. United States

WHALEY, Judge.

This is a suit to recover overpayments of income taxes by plaintiff upon his- personal returns for the calendar years 1924 and 1925.

The sole issue for decision is whether certain payments made by plaintiff during these years are statutory losses properly deductible in determining his taxable net income for those years. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue declined to allow the deduction.

The plaintiff indorsed certain notes of the Lyk-Glas Corporation in 1922 and 1923. The corporation became financially involved in those years and plaintiff was called upon in 1922, 1923, 1924,…