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78 F.2d 408

Docket No. 5649.

Smith v. Commissioner

Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided June 18, 1935.

Third Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1935-06-18

2 counsel of record

Relies on Commissioner v. Widener · Whitney v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Opinion by Joseph Buffington · Decided 1935-06-18

¶1Percy W. Phillips, of Washington, D. C. (Brewster, Ivins & Phillips, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for petitioner.

¶2John MacC. Hudson and J. Louis Monarch, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

¶3Before BUFFINGTON and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges, and FORMAN, District Judge.

¶4BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

¶5The question involved in this case, as stated in the government’s brief, is, “Were *409petitioner’s activities in connection with training and racing horses a trade or business or a transaction entered into for profit, so that the excess of expenditures over receipts constitutes a deductible loss?”

¶6The question of losses incurred by men engaged in the training and racing of horses has been before this court in Commissioner v. Widener, 33 F.(2d) 833, and Whitney v. Commissioner, 73 F.(2d) 589, cases which the government has not sought to question by reviews. There is no dispute about the facts in the present case, and we find nothing, except the size of the business, which differentiates the present taxpayer’s activities from those of Messrs. Whitney and Widener in the two cases cited.

¶7Regarding those cases as evidencing the settled holdings of this court, we are of opinion the Tax Board erred in holding that the losses incurred in taxpayer’s training and racing business were not deductible.

¶8Reversed.

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