285 U.S. Decisions Per Curiam, Etc. 316, 317. Mr. Powell C. Groner, with whom Messrs. Robert W. Otto and Henry N. Ess were on the brief, for appellant. Messrs. Henry L. McCune and E. H. Wright were on the brief for appellee. Reported below: 328 Mo. 524; 41 S. W. (2d) 169. No. 529. THOMSON ET AL. v. DANA ET AL. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. Argued March 22, 1932. Decided March 28, 1932. Per Curiam: Decree affirmed. Manchester v. Massachusetts, 139 U. S. 240; Lawton v. Steele, 152 U. S. 133; Miller v. McLaughlin, 281 U. S. 261; Wampler v. LeCompte, 282 U. S. 172; Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co., 220 U. S. 61, 79, 80; Crescent Cotton Oil Co. v. Mississippi, 257 U. S. 129, 137; Heisler v. Thomas Colliery Co., 260 U. S. 245, 255; Whitney v. California, 274 U. S. 357, 369, 370. Mr. W. Y. Masters for appellants. Mr. Chester E. McCarty, Assistant Attorney General of Oregon, with whom Mr. I. H. Van Winkle, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellees. Reported below: 52 F. (2d) 759. No. 717. WHITMER V. LUCAS, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, ET AL. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Submitted March 21, 1932. Decided March 28; 1932. Per Curiam: The petition for writ of certiorari in this cause is granted. On consideration of the suggestion of the United States that this cause has abated, it is ordered that the decrees of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois in this cause, be, and the same are hereby, vacated, and the cause is remanded to the District Court with directions to dismiss the proceeding as abated. United States ex rel. Claussen v. Curran, 276 U. S. 590; Matheus v. United States ex rel. Cunningham, 282 U. S. 802. Mr. Lee D. Mathias for 137818°-32- -34 Decisions Per Curiam, Etc. 285 U.S. petitioner. Solicitor General Thacher and Mr. W. Marvin Smith for respondents. Reported below: 53 F. (2d) 1006. No. 644. LAMB, DEPUTY SHERIFF, ET AL. v. NEW JERSEY EX REL. TIERNEY. Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Hudson County, New Jersey. Jurisdictional statement submitted March 21, 1932. Decided March 28, 1932. Per Curiam: The appeal herein is dismissed for the want of jurisdiction. Section 237 (a), Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of February 13, 1925 (43 Stat. 936, 937). Treating the papers whereon the appeal was allowed as a petition for writ of certiorari as required by § 237 (c), Judicial Code, as amended (43 Stat. 936, 938), certiorari is denied. Mr. Max Rhoade for appellants. No appearance for appellee. No. 660. FARRINGTON v. CALIFORNIA. Appeal from the Supreme Court of California. Jurisdictional statement submitted March 28, 1932. Decided April 11, 1932. Per Curiam: The appeal herein is dismissed for the want of jurisdiction. Section 237 (a) Judicial Code as amended by the Act of February 13, 1925 (43 Stat. 936, 937). Treating the papers whereon the appeal was allowed as a petition for writ of certiorari, as required by § 237 (c) Judicial Code, as amended (43 Stat. 936, 938), certiorari is denied. Mr. Roland Becsey for appellant. Mr. U. S. Webb, Attorney General of California, for appellee. Reported below: 213 Cal. 459; 2 P. (2d) 814. No. 19, original. EX PARTE COLORADO. April 11, 1932. Return to the rule to show cause submitted by Solicitor General Thacher, Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, and Messrs. Mahlon D. Kiefer and John J. Byrne. 285 U.S. Decisions Granting Certiorari. DECISIONS GRANTING CERTIORARI, FROM FEBRUARY 16, 1932, TO AND INCLUDING APRIL 11, 1932 No. 649. ADAMS GREASE GUN CORP. v. BASSICK MFG. Co. February 23, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this application. Mr. Alfred W. Kiddle for petitioner. Mr. Lynn A. Williams for respondent. Reported below: 52 F. (2d) 36; 54 id. 285. No. 639. BLAKEY, RECEIVER, V. BRINSON. February 23, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted. Messrs. George P. Barse and Henry Eastman Hackney for petitioner. Mr. L. I. Moore for respondent. Reported below: 52 F. (2d) 821. No. 664. PIEDMONT & NORTHERN RY. Co. v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION ET AL. March 14, 1932. 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 or decision of this application. Messrs. W. S. O'B. Robinson, Jr., and H. J. Haynsworth for petitioner. Messrs. Nelson Thomas and Daniel W. Knowlton for the Interstate Commerce Commission, respondent. Messrs. F. B. Grier, S. R. Prince, Carl H. Davis, Sidney S. Alderman, and E. S. Jouett for the respondent carriers. Reported below: 51 F. (2d) 766. No. 674. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RY. Co. v. SIMPSON, ADMINISTRATRIX. March 14, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas granted. Decisions Granting Certiorari. 285 U.S. Messrs. Harold R. Small and A. L. Adams for petitioner. Mr. Frank Pace for respondent. Reported below: 184 Ark. 633; 43 S. W. (2d) 251. No. 731. KOENIG ET AL. V. FLYNN, SECRETARY OF STATE, ET AL. March 15, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New York granted. Messrs. Abraham S. Gilbert and Benjamin L. Fairchild for petitioners. Messrs. John J. Bennett, John Godfrey Saxe, Henry Epstein, Robert F. Wagner, and John J. O'Connor for respondents. Reported below: 141 Misc. 840, 253 N. Y. S. 554; 234 App. Div. 139, 254 N. Y. S. 339; 258 N. Y. 292, 179 N. E. 705. No. 700. PAGE, TRUSTEE, V. ARKANSAS NATURAL GAS CORP. March 21, 1932. Pétition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted. Messrs. Frank J. Looney, Judson M. Grimmet, and Yandell Boatner for petitioner. Messrs. Robert S. Sloan and John W. Davis for respondent. Reported below: 53 F. (2d) 27. No. 703. BALTIMORE & OHIO R. Co. v. BERRY. March 21, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Missouri granted. Messrs. Rudolph J. Kramer, Bruce A. Campbell, Morison R. Waite, and Wm. A. Eggers for petitioner. Messrs. Wm. H. Allen and John S. Marsalek for respondent. Reported below: 43 S. W. (2d) 782. No. 704. ÚNITED STATES V. KOMBST ET AL. March 21, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Claims granted. Solicitor General Thacher for the United States. Messrs. Clarence W. DeKnight and Frederick Schwertner for respondents. Reported below: 72 Ct. Cls. 695; 52 F. (2d) 1030. 285 U.S. Decisions Granting Certiorari. No. 672. PLANTERS COTTON OIL CO., INC., ET AL. v. HOPKINS, COLLECTOR. March 21, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted. Messrs. Joe A. Worsham, J. L. Gammon, W. A. Sutherland, and J. M. Burford for petitioners. Solicitor General Thacher, Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, and Messrs. Claude R. Branch, J. Louis Monarch, and Norman D. Keller for respondent. Reported below: 53 F. (2d) 825. No. 698. L'HOTE ET AL. v. CROWELL, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, ET AL. March 21, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted limited to the question raised by the review of the Deputy Commissioner's finding as to the dependency of Zeb Payne. Mr. Arthur A. Moreno for petitioners. Solicitor General Thacher, Assistant Attorney General St. Lewis, and Messrs. Claude R. Branch and W. Clifton Stone for Crowell. Reported below: 54 F. (2d) 212. No. 714. MACDONALD, TRUSTEE, v. PLYMOUTH COUNTY TRUST CO. March 21, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit granted. Mr. Robert A. B. Cook for petitioner. Mr. Joseph B. Jacobs for respondent. Reported below: 53 F. (2d) 827. No. 730. LANG v. UNITED STATES. March 21, 1932. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. Messrs. Charles Dickerman Williams and Jerome A. Strauss for petitioner. Solicitor General Thacher, Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, and Messrs. Claude R. Branch and Norman J. Morrisson for the United States. Reported below: 55 F. (2d) 922. |