309 U.S. Decisions Granting Certiorari. 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. Mem win N. Griswold, John Noble, Jr., and Paul Decisions Granting Certiorari. 309 U.S. 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 U. 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. 309 U.S. Decisions Granting Certiorari. No. 463. BERGER, RECEIVER, v. CHASE NATIONAL 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 |