# Trotz v. Commissioner

> United States Tax Court · November 6, 1964 · 43 T.C. 127

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4480096

## Case

- **Full name:** Harry Trotz and Camille Trotz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
- **Court:** United States Tax Court
- **Decided:** November 6, 1964
- **Citations:** 43 T.C. 127; 1964 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 21
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Mulronex
- **Judges:** Fay,Tietjens
- **Cited by:** 12 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Reversed by Harry Trotz and Camille Trotz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 361 F.2d 927 (1966).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4480096

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that: “Petitioner’s rights with respect to the stock * * * were so complete that they were tantamount to ownership by petitioner for the purposes of section 1239.”

## Opinion text

Mulronex, J., dissenting with respect to the second issue: I read Fribourg Navigation Co. v. Commissioner, 335 F. 2d 15 , and the opinion of this Court which it affirms, 1 as interpreting the phrase “reasonable allowance” in section 167(a), I.R.C. 1954, as excluding as unreasonable any allowance for depreciation in the year the asset is sold for more than its depreciated cost. Here, as in Macabe Co., 42 T.C. 1105 (1964), and Smith Leasing Co., 43 T.C. 37 (1964), this pronouncement of the Second Circuit in Fribourg is not accepted by the majority as a rule of law. I would hold it is a sound rule of law upon the reasoning set forth in the opinion, and that this Court should follow, especially because it is announced by an appellate court in an opinion affirming this Court. I would hold for respondent on the issue.
Tietjens and Pierce, //., agree with this dissent. Fribourg navigation Co., T.C. Memo. 1962— 290.

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