VOLUME 304

CASES ADJUDGED

IN

THE SUPREME COURT

AT

OCTOBER TERM, 1937

FROM APRIL 12, 1938, TO AND INCLUDING MAY 31, 1938
(END OF THE TERM)

ERNEST KNAEBEL

REPORTER

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1938

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. - Price $3.00 (Buckram)

JUSTICES

OF THE

SUPREME COURT

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS

1

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, CHIEF JUSTICE.
JAMES CLARK MCREYNOLDS, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
PIERCE BUTLER, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

HARLAN FISKE STONE, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
OWEN J. ROBERTS, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.2
HUGO L. BLACK, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
STANLEY REED, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

RETIRED

WILLIS VAN DEVANTER, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.
GEORGE SUTHERLAND, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

HOMER S. CUMMINGS, ATTORNEY GENERAL.
ROBERT H. JACKSON, SOLICITOR GENERAL.
CHARLES ELMORE CROPLEY, CLERK.
FRANK KEY GREEN, MARSHAL.3

THOMAS ENNALLS WAGGAMAN, MARSHAL."

'For allotment of the Chief Justice and Associate Justices among the several circuits, see next page.

'MR. JUSTICE CARDOZO was absent from the bench, on account of illness, during the period covered by this volume.

'MR. FRANK KEY GREEN, Marshal of the Court, died April 26, 1938 (see announcement by the Chief Justice, post, p. v). On May 2, 1938, Mr. Thomas Ennalls Waggaman was appointed Marshal of the Court.