Question juridique clé
Whether payments under solidarity liability for the son's restaurant were deductible business losses of the appellants' own sole proprietorship.
Solution extraite
No. The expenses were private family support and not business-related costs of the appellants' restaurant.
Motifs extraits
Although the father substantially assisted the son, the venture was run as the son’s sole proprietorship; the parties did not jointly operate the restaurant, and the evidence showed only a family-based support relationship, not a partnership. The payments therefore related to the father personally and could not be deducted under business expense rules.