HARRY LEVY, Bankrupt, Petitioner, v. IN- | ADOLFO VALDES, Pio Perez, Luis C. DUSTRIAL FINANCE CORPORATION et al. [No. 1029.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 769. LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK OF ROANOKE, See same case below, 18 F. (2d) 281. D. B. HEINER, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-third District of Pennsylvania, Petitioner, v. COLONIAL TRUST COMPANY, Executor, etc. [No. 1035]; and C. G. LEWELLYN, Former Collector of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-third District of Pennsylvania, Petitioner, v. THE COLONIAL TRUST COMPANY, Executor, etc. [No. 1036]. Petition for Writs of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. See same case below, 17 F. (2d) 36. Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. A. W. Gregg for petitioners. Messrs. R. C. Allen, I. J. Underwood, Charles Alvin Jones, and M. W. Acheson, Jr., for respondent. May 16, 1927. Granted. T. H. SMALLWOOD, W. F. Smallwood, et al., etc., Petitioners, v. JUan G. GalLARDO, Treasurer of Porto Rico. [No. 1018]; ADOLFO VALDES ORDONEZ, Salvador Garcia, et al., etc., Petitioners, v. JUAN G. GALLARDO, Treasurer of Porto Rico. [No. 1019]; and INSULAR MOTOR CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. JUAN G. GALLARDO, Treasurer of Porto Rico. [No 1020]. Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 545. Mr. Francis G. Caffey for petitioners. Mr. William C. Rigby for respondent. May 16, 1927. Granted. Cuyar, Petitioners, v. JUAN G. GALLARDO, Treasurer of Porto Rico [No. 1021]; FINLAY, WAYMOUTH & LEE, Inc., Petitioner, v. JUAN G. GALLARDO, Treasurer of Porto Rico [No. 1022]; and ANGEL ABARCA PORTILLA, Rafael Abarca Portilla, et al., etc., Petitioners, v. JUAN G. GALLARDO, Treasurer of Porto Rico. [No. 1023.] Petition for Writs of Certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 545. Mr. Carroll G. Walter for petitioners. Mr. William C. Rigby for respondent. May 16, 1927. The petition for writs of certiorari in these cases is granted and the cases are set for hearing on the first day of next term, Monday, October 3 next, after the cases heretofore assigned for that day, on the sole question whether they have become moot by virtue of the Act of March 4, 1927, amending § 48 of the Organic Act of Porto Rico. EATON, BROWN & SIMPSON, Inc., Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES. [No. 955.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Claims. See same case below, 62 Ct. Cl. 668. Messrs. Raymond N. Beebe, Joseph E. Davies, and Franklin D. Jones for petitioner. Solicitor General Mitchell and Assistant Attorney General Galloway for respondent. May 16, 1927. Denied. TEXAS COMPANY and the Orange-Cameron Land Company, Petitioners, v. ROSENTHAL-BROWN FUR COMPANY, Inc., and Charles W. Brown. [No. 1013.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 1022. Messrs. A. P. Pujo, Hampden Story, and Fred L. Williams for petitioners. No appearance for respondents. May 16, 1927. Denied. EDWARD A. MCLAUGHLIN, Trustee, Petitioner, v. LEON M. PRINCE. [No. 1014.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 886. Messrs. Joseph Skin and E. A. McLaughlin, Jr., for petitioner. Mr. Arthur M. Boal for respondent. May 16, 1927. Denied. PULLMAN COMPANY, Petitioner, v. PAUL | the United States Circuit Court of Ap- Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the See same case below, 17 F. (2d) 2. May 16, 1927. Denied. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 746. Messrs. Lucius F. Beers and Allen GUY K. MITCHELL, Executor of Annie Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 767, Mr. Charles S. Hayden for petitioner. MABEL LUDLAM, Petitioner, v. LEIGH UNITED RAILWAYS COMPANY OF ST. Louis Appeal from the District Court of the Francis for appellants. No appearance for appellees. May 16, 1927. Dismissed with costs, BURKE & JAMES, Inc., Petitioner, v. Petition for a Writ of Certiorari tol to the Court of Claims. Messrs. C. C. Carlin and M. Carter, ANNA E. HOLLOWAY NONES, Individually Hall for petitioner. No appearance for respondent. May 16, 1927. Dismissed on motion of counsel for the petitioner. FRED M. BUTZEL, Guardian ad Litem of Agnes Salloum, Plaintiff in Error, v. ANNA SCHNELLER and Robert M. Toms, Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Wayne. [No. 890.] In Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan. See same case below, 236 Mich. 478, 210 N. W. 498. Mr. Thomas G. Long for plaintiff in error. No appearance for defendants in error. May 16, 1927. Dismissed with costs, on motion of counsel for the plaintiff in error. AARON DRUMRIGHT, Trustee, et al., Petitioners, v. TEXAS SUGARLAND COMPANY and Grand Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen of Oklahoma. [No. 1037.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 657. Mr. George A. Hill, Jr., for petitioners. No appearance for respondents. May 16, 1927. Submitted by Mr. George A. Hill, Jr., for the petitioners. STATE OF TEXAS, Appellant, v. David FASKEN, A. Fasken, Robert Fasken, et al. [No. 749.] Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas. Messrs. Dan Moody, Claude Pollard, and D. A. Simmons for appellant. Mr. Charles L. Black for appellees. May 31, 1927. Per Curiam: Appeal dismissed for want of jurisdiction under the provisions of the Act of February 13, 1925, 43 Stat. at L. 936, chap. 229. Motion of the appellant to transfer the case to the circuit court of appeals for the fifth circuit is denied under the same act. The motion in the alternative to docket as an original cause is denied without prejudice. and as Executrix of Edward Lee Holloway, Deceased, Plaintiff in Error, v. GRACE SUZANNE HOLLOWAY, Infant, and Marie Calou, Guardian of the Person and Estate of Grace Suzanne Holloway, Infant, et al. [No. 903]; ANNA E. HOLLOWAY NONES, Individually and as Executrix of Edward Lee Holloway, Deceased, Plaintiff in Error, v. GRACE SUZANNE HOLLOWAY, Infant, and Marie Calou, Guardian of the Person and Estate of Grace Suzanne Holloway, Infant, et al. [No. 904]; CLARENCE J. HOLLOWAY, Plaintiff in Error, GRACE SUZANNE HOLLOWAY, Infant, and Marie Calou, Guardian of the Person and Estate of Grace Suzanne Holloway, Infant, et al. [No. 905]; and CLARENCE J. HOLLOWAY, Plaintiff in Error, v. GRACE SUZANNE HOLLOWAY, Infant, and Marie Calou, Guardian_of the Person and Estate of Grace Suzanne Holloway, Infant, et al. [No. 906]. V. In Error to the Court of Appeals of Maryland. See same case below, Atl. 497. Md. 134 Keech, Jr., for plaintiffs in error. Messrs. Isaac Lobe Straus, Joseph C. France, and Charles McHenry Howard for defendants in error. Dis May 31, 1927. Per Curiam: missed for want of a Federal question, on 225 U. S. 561, 569, 56 L. ed. 1205, 1210, the authority of Shulthis v. McDougal, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 704; Hull v. Burr, 234 U. S. 712, 720, 58 L. ed. 1557, 1561, 34 Sup. Ct. Rep. 892; and Norton v. Whiteside, 239 U. S. 144, 147, 60 L. ed. 186, 187, 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 97. United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 1016. Mr. Irving K. Baxter for petitioners. Solicitor General Mitchell, Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt, and Mr. John J. Byrne for respondent. May 31, 1927. Granted. CORA B. BEATTY, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of John W. Beatty, Deceased, Petitioner, v. D. B. HEINER, Collector of Internal Revenue of the Twenty-third District of the United States. [No. 1074.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. See same case below, 17 F. (2d) 743. Messrs. W. D. Stewart, Earl F. Reed, and W. A. Seifert for petitioner. Solicitor General Mitchell, Assistant General Willebrandt, and Attorney Messrs. Sewall Key, Alex. W. Gregg, and T. H. Lewis, Jr., for respondent. May 31, 1927. Granted. Mr. Chief Justice Taft took no part in the consideration or decision of the application for a writ of certiorari in this case. THOMPSON-STARRETT COMPANY, Petitioner, v. LA BELLE IRON WORKS. [No. 1025.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. See same case below, 17 F. (2d) 536. Messrs. Charles H. Tuttle and Charles E. Hughes for petitioner. Messrs. Louis Marshall and W. D. Stewart for respondent. May 31, 1927. Denied. CHARLES FRISH and Edward Frish, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. [No. 1032.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. See same case below, 17 F. (2d) 81. Miss Irene Rutherford O'Crowley for petitioners. Solicitor General Mitchell, Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt, and Mrs. K. L. Campbell for respondent. May 31, 1927. Denied. Arthur R. Johnson, et al., Partners, etc., Petitioners, v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. [No. 1041.] JOHN F. MILLIKEN and Neptune Asso- | RIDLEY WATTS, Charles H. Murphy, ciation of Masters and Mates of Ocean and Coastwise Steam Vessels, Inc., and Alex. Smith, Petitioners, v. HARLAN F. STONE, United States Attorney General, William Hayward, United States Attorney, etc., et al. [No. 1033.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 981. Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of South Carolina. See same case below, 139 S. C. 516, 138 S. E. 290. ers. Mr. William F. Stevenson for petition Messrs. Charles Clark, F. G. Tompkins, and S. R. Prince for respondent. May 31, 1927. Denied. AARON DRUMRIGHT, Trustee, R. T. STUART, and R. T. Stuart & Company, Petitioners, v. TEXAS SUGARLAND COMPANY and Grand Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen of Oklahoma. [No. 1037.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 657. EMPIRE COAL MINING COMPANY, Petitioner, v. GODFREY UPDIKE, as Receiver and Trustee of the Estate of Independent Coal Corporation, Bankrupt. [No. 1042.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. See same case below, 18 F. (2d) 1. D. Francis for petitioner. Messrs. Frank M. Swacker and Isadore Shapiro for respondent. May 31, 1927. Denied. RAYMOND L. CHASE, Petitioner, v. UNIT- See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 1015. ROBERT C. WHITNEY, Petitioner, v. UNIT- See same case below, 16 F. (2d) 1023. May 31, 1927. Denied. B. FRANK WOOD and J. Leigh Nourse, Petitioners, v. HENRY COOPER, United States Marshal in and for the Eastern District of Oklahoma and the United States of America [No. 1043]; and B. FRANK WOOD, Petitioner, v. HENRY COOPER, United States Marshal in and for the Eastern District of Oklahoma and the United States of America. [No. 1044]. Petition for Writs of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. See same case below, 18 F. (2d) 535. Messrs. Thomas P. Gore, James A. Reed, and Thomas H. Owen for petition |