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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.

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

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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.

No. 664.

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.

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No. 463. BERGER, RECEIVER, v. CHASE NATIONAL

BANK;

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SCHRAM, RECEIVER, v. SAME;

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WARDELL, RECEIVER, v. SAME;

YOUNG, SUCCESSOR TO HARDEE, RECEIVER, v.

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SAME; and

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.