309 U.S. Decisions Granting Certiorari. No. 818. SMITH V. TEXAS. April 22, 1940. Motion for leave to proceed further in forma pauperis, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, granted. Mr. William A. Vinson for petitioner. Reported below: 139 Tex. Crim.-; 136 S. W. 2d 842. No. 726. FLEISHER ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION Co. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF HALLENBECK. See post, p. 693. No. 778. WILSON & CO., INC. v. UNITED STATES; No. 779. WILSON & Co., INC., OF KANSAS v. SAME; and No. 780. T. M. SINCLAIR & Co. v. SAME. April 22, 1940. Petition for writs of certiorari to the Court of Claims granted. Messrs. J. Harry Covington, Dean G. Acheson, and Paul E. Shorb for petitioners. Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney Clark, and Messrs. Sewall Key and J. Louis Monarch for the United States. Reported below: 90 Ct. Cls. 131; 30 F. Supp. 672. No. 789. NASHVILLE, CHATTANOOGA & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY V. BROWNING ET AL., CONSTITUTING THE STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. April 22, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Tennessee granted. Messrs. Wm. H. Swiggart and Edwin F. Hunt for petitioner. Mr. W. F. Barry for respondents. Reported below: 176 Tenn.-; 140 S. W. 2d 781. No. 814. AMERICAN UNITED MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE Co. v. CITY OF AVON PARK, FLORIDA. April 22, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted. Mr. Giles J. Decisions Granting Certiorari. 309 U.S. Patterson for petitioner. Mr. Robert J. Pleus for respondent. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 1010. No. 815. FIDELITY UNION TRUST CO. ET AL., EXECUTORS, ET AL. v. FIELD. April 22, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted. Mr. Francis F. Welsh for petitioners. Mr. Russell C. MacFall for respondent. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 521. No. 774. BACARDI CORPORATION v. BONET, TREASURER, ET AL. April 22, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit granted. Messrs. Edward S. Rogers, Thomas Hunt, Jerome L. Isaacs, Karl D. Loos, and Preston B. Kavanagh for petitioner. Messrs. William Cattron Rigby, George A. Malcolm, Attorney General of Puerto Rico, and Nathan R. Margold for Bonet, Treasurer; and Mr. David A. Buckley, Jr. for Destileria Serralles, Inc., respondents. Reported below: 109 F. 2d 57. No. 782. WEST INDIA OIL Co. (Puerto Rico) v. BONET, TREASURER OF PUERTO RICO. April 22, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit granted. Mr. James R. Beverley for petitioner. Messrs. William Cattron Rigby, George A. Malcolm, Attorney General of Puerto Rico, and Nathan R. Margold for respondent. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 144. No. 803. HANSBERRY ET AL. V. LEE ET AL. April 22, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois granted. Mr. Earl B. Dickerson for 309 U.S. Decisions Denying Certiorari. petitioners. Messrs. Angus Roy Shannon and William C. Graves for respondents. Reported below: 372 Ill. 369; 24 N. E. 2d 37. No. 825. L. SINGER & SONS ET AL. v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD Co.; and No. 826. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, v. L. SINGER & SONS ET AL. April 22, 1940. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted. Mr. John M. Cleary for petitioners. Mr. Henry N. Ess for Union Pacific Railroad Co., respondent. Reported below: 109 F. 2d 493. No. 581. PALMER ET AL., TRUSTEES, v. CONNECTICUT RAILWAY & LIGHTING CO. April 22, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. Messrs. James Garfield and Hermon J. Wells for petitioners. Mr. George W. Martin for respondent. Reported below: 109 F. 2d 568. DECISIONS DENYING CERTIORARI, FROM JANUARY 16, 1940, THROUGH APRIL 22, 1940. No. 605. MILAR V. BURLEIGH, EXECUTRIX, ET AL. January 29, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ohio, and motion for leave to proceed further in forma pauperis, denied. Anna May Milar, pro se. Reported below: 135 Ohio St. 587; 21 N. E. 2d 677. No. 617. STEWART v. ST. SURE, U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE. January 29, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and motion for leave to proceed further in forma pauperis, de Decisions Granting Certiorari. 309 U.S. curiae were filed by Mr. Osmond K. Fraenkel, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union; and by Messrs. Harry Graham Balter, Carey McWilliams, Ellis E. Patterson, and George Bodle, on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles Chapter,-in support of the petition. Reported below: 14 Cal. 2d 464; 94 P. 2d 983. No. 783. HELVERING, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, V. HORST. April 8, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. Solicitor General Biddle for petitioner. Mr. Harry H. Wiggins for respondent. Reported below: 107 F. 2d 906. No. 799. SIBBACH v. WILSON & Co. April 8, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted. Messrs. Lambert Kaspers and Royal W. Irwin for petitioner. Mr. J. F. Dammann for respondent. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 415. No. 813. MONTGOMERY WARD & Co. v. DUNCAN. April 8, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted. Mr. J. Merrick Moore for petitioner. Messrs. Edward H. Coulter and Kenneth W. Coulter for respondent. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 848. No. 822. WASHINGTON EX REL. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR KING COUNTY ET AL. See ante, p. 638. No. 768. HELVERING, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, V. CENTER INVESTMENT Co. See ante, p. 639. 309 U.S. Decisions Granting Certiorari. No. 818. SMITH V. TEXAS. April 22, 1940. Motion for leave to proceed further in forma pauperis, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, granted. Mr. William A. Vinson for petitioner. Reported below: 139 Tex. Crim.-; 136 S. W. 2d 842. No. 726. FLEISHER ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION Co. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF HALLENBECK. See, post, p. 693. No. 778. WILSON & CO., INC. v. UNITED STATES; No. 779. WILSON & Co., INC., OF KANSAS v. SAME; and No. 780. T. M. SINCLAIR & Co. v. SAME. April 22, 1940. Petition for writs of certiorari to the Court of Claims granted. Messrs. J. Harry Covington, Dean G. Acheson, and Paul E. Shorb for petitioners. Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney Clark, and Messrs. Sewall Key and J. Louis Monarch for the United States. Reported below: 90 Ct. Cls. 131; 30 F. Supp. 672. No. 789. NASHVILLE, CHATTANOOGA & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY V. BROWNING ET AL., CONSTITUTING THE STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. April 22, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Tennessee granted. Messrs. Wm. H. Swiggart and Edwin F. Hunt for petitioner. Mr. W. F. Barry for respondents. Reported below: 176 Tenn.-; 140 S. W. 2d 781. No. 814. AMERICAN UNITED MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE Co. v. CITY OF AVON PARK, FLORIDA. April 22, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted. Mr. Giles J. |