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          decision are:  (1) Whether petitioners are entitled to a gambling           
          loss deduction not claimed on their 1994 Federal income tax                 
          return; and (2) whether petitioners may exclude from their 1994             
          income certain amounts received during that year pursuant to                
          long-term disability insurance coverage.                                    
                                  FINDINGS OF FACT                                    
               Some of the facts have been stipulated and are so found.               
          Petitioners are husband and wife.  They filed a timely joint                
          Federal income tax return for the year 1994.  At the time the               
          petition was filed, petitioners resided in El Cajon, California.            
               Prior to the year in issue, Hazel B. Smith was employed by             
          Sears, Roebuck and Co. (Sears).   She retired from Sears either             
          shortly before, or early in, 1994.  As a result of an accident              
          that occurred prior to 1994, she was confined to a wheelchair for           
          most, or all, of that year.                                                 
               John D. Smith was employed as a counter person by                      
          Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc. (Consolidated) from              
          1987 until he injured his back in an employment-related accident            
          in 1992.  Consolidated provided long-term disability benefits to            
          its employees through a group plan underwritten by ITT Hartford             
          (Hartford).  As a result of his back injury, he applied for and             
          received long-term disability benefits under the group plan.                
          Long-term disability benefits were approved in September 1993 to            
          continue during the period of his disability, but not beyond                





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