# City Bank Farmers Trust Co. v. Commissioner > United States Board of Tax Appeals · January 4, 1939 · 39 B.T.A. 29 URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4497056 ## Case - **Full name:** CITY BANK FARMERS TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE OF A TRUST UNDER THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ANGIER B. DUKE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANTHONY NEWTON DUKE, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue - **Court:** United States Board of Tax Appeals - **Decided:** January 4, 1939 - **Citations:** 39 B.T.A. 29; 1939 BTA LEXIS 1081 - **Precedential status:** Published - **Opinion:** Dissent by Leech - **Judges:** Harron, Smith, Mellott, Agree, Leech, Aenold, Turner, Fossan, Arundeul, Disney - **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library ## Citator (automated) - No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases. - Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4497056 ## Opinion text Leech, dissenting: The respondent admittedly allowed deductions of commissions, similar to those now contested, in his determination of the present deficiencies. He asks for no increased deficiencies because of error in that action. But if that was right, it would seem so, only, if the petitioning bank, as trustee of each of the two trusts, was carrying on business during the taxable year. However, respondent disallows the deduction of similar additional commissions which are now in controversy, because, he says, the bank, as such trustee, was not carrying on business. In my judgment, his position is wholly inconsistent. Either the petitioning bank, as trustee for these trusts, was carrying on business during the taxable year, or it was not. If it was, not only those commissions, the deduction of which was allowed by the respondent, are deductible, but the contested additional commissions are likewise deductible. I think the bank, as such trustee, was more than a passive conservator of investments and was carrying on business during the taxable year. The record, to me, clearly establishes that fact. In my opinion, the additional commissions, now in dispute, are deductible as well as those the deduction of which respondent has allowed and is not now contesting. Arundeul and Tyson agree with this dissent. --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4497056. Public record. Not legal advice.