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280 U.S.

Decisions Per Curiam, Etc.

Curiam: The appeal is dismissed for the want of a substantial federal question. Shulthis v. McDougal, 225 U. S. 561, 569; Hull v. Burr, 234 U S. 712, 720; Norton v. Whiteside, 239 U. S. 144, 147. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was allowed as a petition for certiorari, as required by § 237 (c) of the Judicial Code as amended by the Act of February 13, 1925 (c. 229, 43 Stat. 936, 938), certiorari is denied. Mr. Horace Michener Schell, with whom Mr. Henry A. Craig was on the brief, for appellant. Mr. Wm. A. Gray for appellees. Reported below: 295 Pa. 390.

PETITIONS FOR CERTIORARI GRANTED, FROM OCTOBER 7, 1929, TO AND INCLUDING JANUARY 27, 1930.

No. 122. FEDERAL RADIO COMM'N v. GENERAL ELECTRIC Co. ET AL. October 14, 1929. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia granted. Messrs. Louis J. Caldwell, Paul M. Segal, and Bethuel M. Webster, Jr., for petitioner. Messrs. Frank J. Hogan, Wm. H. Donovan, Charles E. Hughes, and Allen S. Hubbard for respondents. Reported below: 31 F. (2d) 630.

No. 87. BALTIMORE & OHIO SOUTHWESTERN R. Co. v. CARROLL. October 14, 1929. The petition for a writ of certiorari herein to the Supreme Court of Indiana is granted with the limitation, however, that counsel shall confine themselves, in the briefs and in oral argument, to the question whether this suit is barred by the statute of limitations. Messrs. Wm. A. Eggers, Morison R. Waite, and Cassius W. McMullen for petitioner. Messrs. Wm. J. Hughes and O. H. Montgomery for respondent. Reported below: 163 N. E. 99. `

No. 123. ROYAL INSURANCE CO., LTD., ET AL. v. U. S. SHIPPING BOARD MERCHANT FLEET CORP. October 14, 1929. The petition for a writ of certiorari herein to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted, with provisions for advancement of the cause, to be heard with other related causes. Mr. John C. Crawley for petitioners. Solicitor General Hughes, Assistant Attorney General Farnum, and Mr. J. Frank Staley for respondent. Reported below: 30 F. (2d) 946.

v. COOK ET AL. certiorari to the

Decisions Granting Certiorari.

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No. 81. EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORP., LTD., October 14, 1929. Petition for writ of Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted. Messrs. Clyde A. Sweeton and W. A. Vinson for petitioner. Mr. D. A. Simmons for respondents. Reported below: 31 F. (2d) 497.

No. 89. TEXAS & PACIFIC R. Co. v. GUIDRY. October 14, 1929. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals, Sixth Supreme Judicial District, State of Texas, granted. Mr. T. D. Gresham for petitioner. Mr. S. P. Jones for respondent. Reported below: 9 S. W. (2d) 284.

No. 92. LUCAS, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. NORTH TEXAS LUMBER Co. October 14, 1929. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted. Attorney General Mitchell, Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt, and Messrs. Alfred A. Wheat and Randolph C. Shaw for petitioner. Messrs. Albert B. Hall and Joseph J. Eckford for respondent. Reported below: 30 F. (2d) 680.

No. 93. COOPER v. UNITED STATES. October 14, 1929. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Claims granted. Mr. Wayne Johnson for petitioner. Solicitor General Hughes, Assistant Attorney General Galloway, and Messrs. Lisle A. Smith and Henry A. Cox for the United States. Reported below: 67 Ct. Cls. 711.

No. 99. LUCAS, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. EARL. October 14, 1929. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted. Attorney General Mitchell, Assistant Attorney

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Decisions Granting Certiorari.

General Willebrandt, and Messrs. Alfred A. Wheat and Millar E. McGilchrist for petitioner. Messrs. Warren Olney, Jr., and J. M. Manon, Jr., for respondent. Reported below: 30 F. (2d) 898.

No. 114. RENZIEHAUSEN V. LUCAS, COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. October 14, 1929. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted. Messrs. Wm. A. Seifert and Wm. Wallace Booth for petitioner. Solicitor General Hughes, and Messrs. J. Louis Monarch and John Vaughan Groner for respondent. Reported below: 31 F. (2d) 675.

No. 118. FLORSHEIM BROTHERS DRYGOODS Co., LTD., v. UNITED STATES. October 14, 1929. Petitition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted. Mr. E. H. Randolph for petitioner. Solicitor General Hughes, and Messrs. Sewall Key and Barham R. Gary for the United States. Reported below: 29 F. (2d) 895.

No. 127. UNIVERSAL BATTERY Co. v. UNITED STATES. October 14, 1929. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Claims granted. Mr. George Maurice Morris for petitioner. Solicitor General Hughes, Assistant Attorney General Galloway, and Messrs. George C. Butte and R. C. Williamson for the United States. Reported below: 66 Ct. Cls. 748.

October 14, 1929.

No. 128. UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN CAN Co.;
No. 129. SAME v. MISSOURI CAN Co.; and
No. 130. SAME v. DETROIT CAN Co.
Petition for writs of certiorari to the
Appeals for the Third Circuit granted.

Circuit Court of
Solicitor General

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