AMERICAN HOTELS CORP. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REV.

No. 138.

134 F.2d 817 (1943)

AMERICAN HOTELS CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

March 6, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Mulcahy, of New York City, for petitioner.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Helen R. Carloss, and Carolyn E. Agger, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before L. HAND, CHASE and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


FRANK, Circuit Judge.

We assume, arguendo and without so deciding, that the taxpayer was liable to Metropolitan for the $25,000 which it paid to Metropolitan in 1938, and that, even if there was no liability, that amount was one of "the ordinary and necessary expenses * * * incurred" by the taxpayer within the meaning of 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code § 23. For, even if we do so assume, still the taxpayer cannot win.

Under 26 U.S.C.A.Int.Rev. Code, § 43...

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