This proceeding involves a deficiency of $1,297.16 in income tax for 1949. The issue is whether the cost of a trip to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France is deductible as a medical expense.
FINDINGS OF FACT.
The petitioners are husband and wife and reside in Clayton, Missouri. They filed a joint return for the taxable year with the collector of internal revenue for the first district of Missouri. The husband will be referred to hereinafter as the...
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