ALFRED P. LOWELL, Petitioner, v. WARREN | JUAN GATMAITAN, Plaintiff in Error, v. ST. LOUIS UNION TRUST COMPANY, Petitioner, v. MARY E. MELLON et al. [No. 304.] On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Messrз. W. F. Wilson and Enoch A. Chase for petitioner. Messrs. J. H. Everest and R. M. Campbell for respondents. ARIZONA EASTERN RAILROAD COMPANY and Epes Randolph and L. H. Manning, its Sureties, Plaintiffs in Error, v. W. N BRYAN. [No. 651.] In Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona. Mr. Eugene S. Ives for plaintiffs in er ror. Messrs. Thomas Armstrong, Jr., Ernest W. Lewis, and G. P. Bullard for defendant January 12, 1917. Dismissed, at costs of in error. respondent, per stipulation. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff in Error, v. ELIZABETH A. MULLIGAN, as Administratrix of the Estate of W. E. Mulligan, Deceased. [No. 564.] In Error to the Supreme Court of the State of South Carolina. Messrs. P. A. Willcox and Frederic D. McKenney for plaintiff in error. Mr. Benjamin E. Pierce for defendant in error. January 15, 1917. Per Curiam: Judgment affirmed with costs upon the authority of Chicago Junction R. Co. v. King, 222 U. S. 222, 56 L. ed. 173, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 79; Seaboard Air Line R. Co. v. Padgett, 236 U. S. 668, 59 L. ed. 777, 35 Sup. Ct. Rep. 481; Great Northern R. Co. v. Knapp, 240 U. S. 464, 60 L. ed. 745, 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 399; Baltimore & O. R. Co. v. Whitacre, 242 U. S. 169, 61 L. ed. 228, 37 Sup. Ct. Rep. 33. January 15, 1917. Per Curiam: Judg. ment affirmed with costs upon the authority of (1) Chicago Junction R. Co. v. King, 222 U. S. 222, 56 L. ed. 173, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 79; Seaboard Air Line R. Co. v. Padgett, 236 U. S. 668, 59 L. ed. 777, 35 Sup. Ct. Rep. 481; Great Northern R. Co. v. Knapp, 240 U. S. 464, 60 L. ed. 745, 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 399; Baltimore & O. R. Co. v. Whitacre, 242 U. S. 169, 61 L. ed. 228, 37 Sup. Ct. Rep. 33. (2) Norfolk & W. R. Co. v. Earnest, 229 U. S. 114, 121, 122, 57 L. ed. 1096, 1100, 1101, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 654, Ann. Cas. 1914C, 172. CHICAGO & ALTON RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES [No. 30]; and YAZOO & MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES [No. 58.] Appeals from the Court of Claims. Messrs. Jacob M. Dickinson and John G. Johnson for appellants. Mr. Solicitor General Davis and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Thompson for appellee. January 15, 1917. Per Curiam: Judgments affirmed by an equally divided court. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, J. FRED KATZMAIER, Trustée in Bankruptcy 218.] Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Mr. Mortimer C. Rhone for appellant. Mr. Assistant Attorney General Warren and Mr. Bynum E. Hinton for appellees. January 15, 1917. Per Curiam: Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Coder v. Arts, 213 U. S. 223, 234, 235, 53 L. ed. 772, 777, 778, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 436, 16 Ann. Cas. 1008; Tefft, W. & Co. v. Munsuri, 222 U. S. 114, 118, et seq., 56 L. ed. 118, 119, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 67; James v. Stone, 227 U. S. 410, 57 L. ed. 573, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 351; Swift & Co. v. Hoover, 242 U. S. 107, 61 L. ed. 175, 37 Sup. Ct. Rep, 56. 37 S. C.-16 Messrs. Hunter C. Leake, Gustave Lemle, Blewett Lee, and R. V. Fletcher for plaintiff in error. No appearance for defendant in error. DR. PAUL OESTING, alias Paul Allen, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES. [No. 783.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Messrs. Charles J. Heggerty and James Raleigh Kelley for petitioner. Mr. Solicitor General Davis and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Wallace for respondent. January 15, 1917. Denied. J. F. WETZEL, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES. | AMERICAN BANK OF ALASKA, Petitioner, v. [No. 801.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Messrs. O. P. Stidger and David A. Baer for petitioner. Mr. Solicitor General Davis and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Wallace for respondent. January 15, 1917. Denied. EDWIN RICHARDS. [No. 819.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Messrs. Charles J. Heggerty and James Mr. W. H. Metson for respondent. DETROIT IRON & STEEL COMPANY, Petitioner, the Sixth Circuit. ALASKA PACIFIC FISHERIES, Petitioner, v. United States Circuit Court of Appeals for Mr. Harvey M. Friend for petitioner. Messrs. George B. Marty and Charles R. Miller for petitioner. Mr. Albert Lynn Lawrence for respond ent. January 15, 1917. Denied. MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COM-| EX PARTE: IN THE MATTER OF ST. LOUIS, PANY, Petitioner, v. T. D. DAVIS. [No. 851.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the No appearance for respondent. KANSAS CITY, & COLORADO RAILROAD Motions for leave to file petitions for Messrs. Paul E. Walker, Thomas P. Littlepage, James C. Jones, Lon O. Hocker, and Frank H. Sullivan for petitioner. No appearance for respondent. January 22, 1917. Denied without prejudice in any respect to relief on appeal or otherwise on the merits. PUBLIC SERVICE GAS COMPANY, Plaintiff in In Error to the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of New Jersey. Messrs. Frank Bergen and Thomas N. McCarter for plaintiff in error. Messrs. L. Edward Herrmann, Edward F. Merrey, and Albert O. Miller, Jr., for defendants in error. January 19, 1917. Dismissed with costs, per stipulation, on motion of counsel for the plaintiff in error. LAWRENCE MAXWELL et al., Petitioners, v. CHARLOTTE JANE ISABELLE MCDONALD et al. [No. 821.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Messrs. Frederic D. McKenney, J. S. Flannery, Frederick de Courcy Faust, and Charles F. Wilson for petitioners. Messrs. Benjamin S. Minor and Colley W. Bell for respondents. January 22, 1917. Denied. PUBLIC SERVICE GAS COMPANY, Plaintiff in Error, v. CITY OF PATERSON et al. [No. 187.] HEWITT COMPANY, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES METALLIC PACKING COMPANY. [No. 822.] Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for In Error to the Court of Errors and Ap- Messrs. L. Edward Herrmann and Edward January 19, 1917. Dismissed with costs, per stipulation, on motion of counsel for the plaintiff in error. Messrs. James H. Peirce and George P. Mr. Francis T. Chambers for respondent. AMERICAN-HAWAIIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, etc., Petitioner,. v. STRATHALBYN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED, etc., [No. 867.] Motion for leave to present petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States CirAp-cuit Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. PUBLIC SERVICE GAS COMPANY, Plaintiff in Error, v. CITY OF PASSAIC et al. [No. 188.] In Error to the Court of Errors and peals of the State of New Jersey. Messrs. Frank Bergen and Thomas N. McCarter for plaintiff in error. Messrs. L. Edward Herrmann and Edward F. Merrey for defendants in error. January 19, 1917. Dismissed with costs, per stipulation, on motion of counsel for the plaintiff in error. Messrs. W. H. Bogle and Carroll B. Graves for petitioner. No appearance for respondent. January 22, 1917. Granted and the petition denied on the merits, and the motion for delay to give further notice consequently denied. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff in Error, v. E. R. LANGILL and G. A. Edmiston, as Langill & Edmiston. [No. 653.] Messrs. Eppa Hunton, Jr., E. Randolph Williams, and Henry W. Anderson for plaintiff in error. Messrs. H. R. Pollard and Henry Taylor, In Error to the Supreme Court of the Junior for defendants in error. State of Pennsylvania. January 29, 1917. Per Curiam: Dis Messrs. Frederic D. McKenney and H. W. missed for the want of jurisdiction upon Biklé for plaintiff in error. No appearance for defendants in error. January 22, 1917. Dismissed with costs. on motion of counsel for the plaintiff in er ror. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff in Error, v. WILLIAM C. HAGEN. [No. 308.] In Error to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District, Licking County, State of Ohio. Messrs. Alfred A. Frazier, George E. Hamilton, John W. Yerkes, John J. Hamilton, and Edward Kibler for plaintiff in er ror. the authority of (1) Eutis v. Booles, 150 U. S. 361, 37 L. ed. 1111, 14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 131; Leathe v. Thomas, 207 U. S. 93, 52 L. ed. 118, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 30; Mellon Co. v. McCafferty, 239 U. S. 134, 60 L. ed. 181, 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 94. (2) Pierce v. Somerset R. Co. 171 U. S. 641, 43 L. ed. 316, 19 Sup. Ct. Rep. 64; Preston v. Chicago, 226 U. S. 447, 450, 57 L. ed. 293, 295, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 177; Wood v. Chesborough, 228 U. S. 672, 677, 57 L. ed. 1018, 1020, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 706. (3) Moran v. Horsky, 178 U. S. 205, 44 L. ed. 1038, 20 Sup. Ct. Rep. 856. Messrs. F. S. Monnett and Rufus S. Day MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMfor defendant in error. January 22, 1917. Dismissed, per stipulation of counsel. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA, Plaintiff in Error, v. Luisa RIVERA. [No. 27.] In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Porto Rico. Mr. Cay Coll Cuchi for plaintiff in error. Mr. Willis Sweet for defendant in error. January 29, 1917. Per Curiam: Judg. ment affirmed with costs upon the authority of rule 6, 5; Nadal v. May, 233 U. S. 447, 454, 58 L. ed. 1040, 1041, 34 Sup. Ct. Rep. 611; Cardona v. Quiñones, 240 U. S. 83, 88, 60 L. ed. 538, 540, 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 346. PANY, Plaintiff in Error, v. BERTHA L. THOMPSON, as Administratrix of the Estate of Charles E. Thompson, Deceased [No. 565.] In Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota. Mr. Frederick M. Miner for plaintiff in error. Mr. Humphrey Barton for defendant in error. January 29, 1917. Per Curiam: Judgment affirmed with costs upon the authority of Chicago Junction R. Co. v. King, 222 U. S. 222, 56 L. ed. 173, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 79; Seaboard Air Line R. Co. v. Padgett, 236 U. S. 668, 59 L. ed. 777, 35 Sup. Ct. Rep. 481; Great Northern R. Co. v. Knapp, 240 U. S. 464, 60 L. ed. 745, 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 399; Baltimore & O. R. Co. v. Whitacre, 242 U. S. 169, 61 L. Ed. 228, 37 Sup. Ct. Rep. 33. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff in Error, v. DAVID BRANSON. [No. 631.] In Error to the Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland. Messrs. George A. Pearre, Duncan K. Brent, and A. Taylor Smith for plaintiff in error. Messrs. Albert A. Doub, F. Brooke Whiting, and George Louis Eppler for defendant in error. January 29, 1917. Per Curiam: Judg. ment reversed with costs upon the authority In Error to the Supreme Court of Ap- of Delaware, L. & W. R. Co. v. Yurkonis, peals of the State of Virginia. 238 U. S. 439, 59 L. ed. 1397, 35 Sup, Ct. |