249 U.S. Decisions on Petitions for Writs of Certiorari. certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Mr. Fred L. Chappell for petitioner. Mr. Hans Von Briesen for respondents. No. 814. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. FURNEY KING. March 3, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina denied. Mr. Robert N. Simms and Mr. W. B. Rodman for petitioner. No appearance for respondent. No. 821. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY v. GEORGE C. BRISCO. March 3, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied. Mr. J. Gordon Bohannan for petitioner. Mr. David H. Leake for respondent. No. 658. ED C. LASATER v. MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM COMPANY ET AL. March 3, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth Supreme Judicial District of the State of Texas denied. Mr. W. E. Pope for petitioner. Mr. Barry Mohun for respondents. No. 812. ATLANTA NATIONAL BANK v. WILLIAM A. FULLER, TRUSTEE, ETC. March 3, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied. Mr. Jack J. Spalding for petitioner. Mr. Luther Z. Rosser for respondent. Decisions on Petitions for Writs of Certiorari. 249 U.S. No. 817. JAMES KENNEY v. UNITED STATES. March 3, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied. Mr. J. Q. Mahaffy, Mr. John J. King and Mr. W. L. Estes for petitioner. The Solicitor General and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Porter for the United States. No. 826. F. R. GLASCOCK ET AL. v. ELLIS MCDANIEL ET AL., MINORS, by J. O. CRAVENS, GUARDIAN. March 3, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma denied. Mr. W. B. Moore and Mr. George S. Ramsey for petitioners. No appearance for respondents. No. 830. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY v. NEW JERSEY FIDELITY & PLATE GLASS INSURANCE COMPANY. March 3, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of New Jersey denied. Mr. Gilbert Collins, Mr. Lindley M. Garrison, Mr. George S. Hobart, Mr. Edgar H. Boles, Mr. Charles A. Boston and Mr. Richard W. Barrett for petitioner. Mr. Jeremiah F. Hoover for respondent. No. 543. GIDEON M. FREEMAN v. UNITED STATES. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied. Mr. C. W. Pendleton, Jr., for petitioner. No brief filed for the United States. No. 810. AMERICAN RAILROAD COMPANY OF PORTO RICO v. PEOPLE OF PORTO RICO. March 10, 1919. 249 U. S. Decisions on Petitions for Writs of Certiorari. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied. Mr. Francis H. Dexter for petitioner. Mr. Edward S. Bailey and Mr. Howard L. Kern for respondent. No. 818. FRANCES B. FOSTER, SUING FOR HERSELF AND SURVIVING CHILDREN OF A. G. FOSTER, DECEASED, v. J. L. LANCASTER ET AL., RECEIVERS, ETC. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied. Mr. Wm. H. Winter for petitioner. Mr. George Thompson for respondents. No. 823. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. J. F. MCBRIDE. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas denied. Mr. Thomas S. Buzbee, Mr. Thomas P. Litllepage and Mr. Sidney F. Taliaferro for petitioner. Mr. Thomas N. Seawell and Mr. Frank Pace for respondent. No. 824. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA v. J. C. ALLEN ET AL. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of California denied. Mr. Douglas Brookman for petitioner. Mr. Hugh L. Dickson for respondents. No. 825. ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Decisions on Petitions for Writs of Certiorari. 249 U. S. Circuit denied. Mr. Wm. D. McKenzie for petitioner. The Solicitor General for the United States. No. 827. JOSEPH P. KEEFE, TRUSTEE, ETC., v. WORCESTER TRUST COMPANY. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied. Mr. Arthur T. Johnson for petitioner. Mr. Edmund K. Arnold for respondent. No. 829. J. F. WEEKS ET AL. v. ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied. Mr. George E. Wallace for petitioners. Mr. Gardiner Lathrop, Mr. J. W. Terry and Mr. A. H. Culwell for respondent. No. 836. JOHN RUDOLPH &. UNITED STATES. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Mr. Alexander S. Drescher for petitioner. Mr. John Lord O'Brian and Mr. Alfred Bettman for the United States. No. 839. CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS & TEXAS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. WILLIAM SHERIDAN. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee denied. Mr. Edward Colston and Mr. George Hoadly for petitioner. Mr. J. H. Frantz, Mr. Charles M. Seymour and Mr. Robert Bryan Cassell for respondent. 249 U.S. Decisions on Petitions for Writs of Certiorari. No. 844. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS v. LIQUID CARBONIC COMPANY. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Massachusetts denied. Mr. William Harold Hitchcock and Mr. Henry C. Attwill for petitioner. Mr. Charles A. Snow and Mr. William P. Everts for respondent. No. 858. CITY OF NEW YORK v. ARTHUR CARTER HUME, AS RECEIVER, ETC. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Mr. William P. Burr for petitioner. Mr. Joseph A. Kellogg for respondent. No. 859. L. P. LARSON, JR., COMPANY v. MINT PRODUCTS COMPANY. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied. Mr. George I. Haight, Mr. Charles H. Aldrich and Mr. Frank F. Reed for petitioner. Mr. James R. Offield for respondent. No. 861. CHARLES K. DUNCAN, AS TRUSTEE, ETC., v. AMERICAN TRUST & SAVINGS BANK. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied. Mr. Claude D. Ritter for petitioner. Mr. Forney Johnston for respondent. No. 882. DAVID J. KREUZER v. UNITED STATES. March 10, 1919. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the |