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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

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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.

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No. 581. PALMER ET AL., TRUSTEES, v. CONNECTICUT RAILWAY & LIGHTING CO. April 22, 1940. 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.

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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

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General Jackson for the United States. Mr. George R. Tuttle for respondent. Reported below: 27 C. C. P. A. (Customs); 104 F. 2d 368.

No. 426. HELVERING, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, V. LEONARD. February 5, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. Solicitor General Jackson for petitioner. Messrs. J. Donald Duncan and James B. Alley for respondent. Reported below: 105 F. 2d 900.

No. 427. HELVERING, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. FULLER. February 5, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. Solicitor General Jackson for petitioner. Mr. Lucius F. Robinson for respondent. Reported below: 105 F. 2d 903.

No. 632. CANTWELL ET AL. v. CONNECTICUT. See ante, p. 626.

No. 638. APEX HOSIERY Co. v. LEADER ET AL. February 26, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted. Messrs. Sylvan H. Hirsch, Allen J. Levin, Arno P. Mowitz, and Stanley Folz for petitioner. Messrs. Isadore Katz and A. J. Nydick for respondents. Reported below: 108 F.2d 71.

No. 662. DAMPSKIBSSELSKABET DANNEBROG ET AL. v. SIGNAL OIL & GAS Co. February 26, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted. Messrs. Lane Summers, W. H.

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Hayden, and F. T. Merritt for petitioners. Mr. Glenn J. Fairbrook for respondent. Reported below: 106 F. 2d 896.

No. 671. SONTAG CHAIN STORES Co. v. NATIONAL NUT Co. March 4, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted. Messrs. Wm. Nevarre Cromwell, Frank H. Towner, and Guy A. Gladson for petitioner. Messrs. Hugh N. Orr and Charles S. Evans for respondent. Reported below: 107 F. 2d 318.

No. 682. ANDERSON v. HELVERING, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE; and

No. 683. PRICHARD V. SAME. March 4, 1940. Petition for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit granted. Mr. Chas. H. Garnett for petitioners. Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney General Clark, and Messrs. Sewall Key and Richard H. Demuth for respondent. Reported below: 107 F. 2d 459.

No. 690. MINERSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT ET AL. V. GOBITIS. March 4, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted. Messrs. Joseph W. Henderson, Thomas F. Mount, and George M. Brodhead, Jr. for petitioners. Messrs. Hayden C. Covington and Joseph F. Rutherford for respondent. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 683.

No. 643. WARREN ET AL. v. PALMER ET AL. March 4, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. Messrs. Erwin N. Griswold, John Noble, Jr., and Paul E. Troy for

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petitioners. Mr. Hermon J. Wells for respondents. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 164.

No. 674. UNITED STATES v. APPALACHIAN ELECTRIC POWER CO. March 4, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted. The CHIEF JUSTICE took no part in the consideration and decision of this application. Solicitor General Biddle and Mr. David W. Robinson, Jr. for the United States. Messrs. Raymond T. Jackson, A. Henry Mosle, Hugo Kohlmann, and John L. Abbot for respondent. Reported below: 107 F. 2d 769.

No. 634. CANTY v. ALABAMA. See ante, p. 629.

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AMERICAN MANUFACTURING Co. v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD. See ante, p. 629.

No. 681. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS ET AL. v. ROWAN & NICHOLS OIL CO. March 11, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted. Messrs. Gerald C. Mann, Attorney General of Texas, and W. F. Moore, First Assistant Attorney General, for petitioners. Messrs. Dan Moody and Rice M. Tilley for respondent. Reported below: 107 F. 2d 70.

No. 87. WHITE v. TEXAS. See ante, p. 631.

No. 698. FRAME v. HUDSPETH, WARDEN. See ante, p. 632.