No. 467. FEUCHT ET AL., LIQUIDATING TRUSTEES, v. SAME. See ante, p. 632. No. 584. CRANE-JOHNSON Co. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. See post, p. 692. No. 675. UNITED STATES v. STEWART. March 25, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted. Solicitor General Biddle for the United States. Messrs. W. Glenn Harmon, Ernest L. Wilkinson, and John W. Cragun for respondent. Reported below: 106 F. 2d 405. No. 705. UNITED STATES V. DICKERSON. March 25, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Claims granted. Solicitor General Biddle for the United States. Messrs. Herman J. Galloway, George R. Shields, John W. Gaskins, and Fred W. Shields for respondent. Reported below: 89 Ct. Cls. 520. No. 715. UNITED STATES v. SUMMERLIN, ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATRIX. March 25, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida granted. Solicitor General Biddle for the United States. Mr. Asbury Summerlin for respondent. Reported below: 140 Fla. 475; 191 So. 842. No. 651. ABERDEEN MOTOR SUPPLY Co. v. SAME; and No. 652. F. E. ROWE SALES Co. v. SAME. March 25, 1940. Motion to consider the petition for writs of certiorari on a reduced number of copies of the record, and petition for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, granted. MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS took no part in the consideration and decision of these applications. Messrs. John H. Bruninga and John H. Sutherland for petitioners. Messrs. Arthur C. Denison, F. O. Richey, Wm. C. McCoy, and Milton Tibbetts for respondents. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 109. No. 733. DECKERT ET AL. v. INDEPENDENCE SHARES CORP. ET AL.; and No. 734. SAME V. PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY FOR INSURANCE ON LIVES AND GRANTING ANNUITIES. March 25, 1940. Petition for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted. MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS took no part in the consideration and decision of this application. Mr. Harry Shapiro for petitioners. Messrs. Frank Rogers Donahue, George M. Kevlin, and Robert F. Irwin, Jr. for Independence Shares Corp. et al.; and Mr. Walter Biddle Saul for the Pennsylvania Co.,respondents. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 51. No. 752. BORCHARD ET AL. v. CALIFORNIA BANK ET AL. April 1, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted. Messrs. William Lemke and Lloyd S. Nix for petitioners. Messrs. Thomas W. Henderson, Jr. and Chas. E. Donnelly for respondents. Reported below: 107 F. 309 U.S. Decisions Granting Certiorari. No. 770. MILK WAGON DRIVERS UNION LOCAL 753 ET al. v. Lake VALLEY FARM PRODUCTS, INC., ET AL. April 1, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted. Messrs. Abraham W. Brussell and David A. Riskind for petitioners. Mr. Arthur R. Seelig for respondents. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 436. No. 796. SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION V. UNITED STATES REALTY & IMPROVEMENT Co. April 1, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. Solicitor General Biddle and Mr. Chester T. Lane for petitioner. Messrs. Joseph M. Hartfield and Charles W. Dibbell for respondent. Reported below: 108 F. 2d 794. No. 732. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS, TOOL AND DIE MAKERS LODGE No. 35 v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD. April 1, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted. Mr. Joseph A. Padway for petitioners. Solicitor General Biddle and Messrs. Thomas E. Harris, Charles Fahy, Robert B. Watts, and Laurence A. Knapp for respondent. Reported below: 110 F. 2d 29. No. 767. HELVERING, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. WOOD ET AL., TRUSTEES. See ante, p. 637. No. 759. BRIDGES V. CALIFORNIA. April 8, 1940. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California granted. Mr. A. L. Wirin for petitioner. Messrs. Wm. B. McKesson, Allen W. Ashburn, and Michael G. Luddy for respondent. By leave of Court, briefs of amici 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. |