108 F.2d 678 (1939) HERMAN v. MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK. No. 7211. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. December 21, 1939. *679 Arthur S. Arnold, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant. Charles I. Thompson, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Louis W. Dawson, of New York City, and Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellee. MARIS, CLARK, and JONES, Circuit Judges. CLARK, Circuit Judge. The layman's sense of grievance is not (and this is axiomatic) coterminous...
110 F.2d 15 (1939) WILLIAMSON v. COLUMBIA GAS & ELECTRIC CORPORATION. No. 7168. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. December 21, 1939. Rehearing Denied January 27, 1940. Writ of Certiorari Denied May 27, 1940. *16 Arthur G. Logan and Marvel, Morford & Logan, all of Wilmington, Del., for appellant. Clarence A. Southerland, of Wilmington, Del., and Douglas M. Moffat, of New York City, for appellee. Before MARIS, BIDDLE, and JONES, Circuit Judges. Writ of Certiorari Denied May 27, 1940. See...
108 F.2d 967 (1939) McBRIER v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. No. 7155. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. December 19, 1939. Elmer K. Weppner, of Buffalo, N. Y., for petitioner. Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Norman D. Keller, and Edward M. English, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent. Before MARIS, CLARK, and JONES, Circuit Judges. CLARK, Circuit Judge. What is a person To one conversant with the English language it is primarily a human being or...
108 F.2d 319 (1939) BERKOWITZ v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. No. 7148. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. November 28, 1939. *320 Charles M. Trammell and Donald McGovern, both of Washington, D. C., and William W. Hall, of Pittston, Pa., for petitioner. Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and John A. Gage, Sp. Asst's. to Atty. Gen., for respondent. Before BIGGS, MARIS, and CLARK, Circuit Judges. CLARK, Circuit Judge. In 1892 two persons, a peddler and a housewife,...
108 F.2d 51 (1939) INDEPENDENCE SHARES CORPORATION et al. v. DECKERT et al. PENNSYLVANIA CO. FOR INSURANCES ON LIVES AND GRANTING ANNUITIES v. SAME. Nos. 7146, 7147. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. November 11, 1939. Rehearing Denied December 20, 1939. *52 Walter Biddle Saul, Francis H. Bohlen, Jr., and Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities. Robert F. Irwin, Jr., George M. Kevlin, Joseph...
105 F.2d 357 (1939) In re PHILADELPHIA & READING COAL & IRON CO. Appeal of SCHRAGER. No. 7129. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. June 30, 1939. Archibald Palmer, New York City, and Jenkins, Bennett & Libby, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant. Henry Alan Johnston, of New York City for stockholders of debtor. Arthur Littleton, of Philadelphia, Pa., (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for debtor. Allen Hunter White, of Philadelphia, Pa., for Philadelphia debenture...
106 F.2d 921 (1939) RUHLIN et al. v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. No. 7097. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. November 1, 1939. Margiotti, Pugliese, Evans & Buckley, John E. Evans, Sr., Sachs & Caplan, and Charles H. Sachs, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellants. William H. Eckert, and Smith, Buchanan & Ingersoll, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee. Before BIGGS, MARIS, and CLARK, Circuit Judges. *922 MARIS, Circuit Judge. This case involves the question whether the incontestability clause...
106 F.2d 215 (1939) In re STANDARD GAS & ELECTRIC CO. Appeal of CHADBOURNE. No. 7088. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. August 9, 1939. *216 Wm. M. Chadbourne, of New York City, in pro per. (William M. Chadbourne, Clinton De Witt Van Siclen, and John Holbrook, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellant. Seibert & Riggs, of New York City (H. Preston Coursen, of New York City, of counsel), for appellee. Before MARIS, CLARK, and BIDDLE, Circuit Judges. MARIS, Circuit Judge. This...
107 F.2d 155 (1939) PITTSBURGH BREWING CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. No. 7083. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. November 7, 1939. Aaron Holman and I. Newton Brozan, both of New York City, for petitioner. Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, Arthur A. Armstrong, and Newton K. Fox, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent. Before BIGGS, MARIS, and CLARK, Circuit Judges. MARIS, Circuit Judge. This is a petition to review a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals...
107 F.2d 706 (1939) KOPPERS COAL & TRANSPORTATION CO. v. UNITED STATES. No. 7076. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. November 15, 1939. *707 John E. McClure, of Washington, D. C., Thomas J. Michie, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa. (Charles D. Evans, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and David W. Richmond, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellant. Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, and John A. Gage, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for appellee. Before BIGGS, MARIS, and...
108 F.2d 429 (1939) HANLIN et al. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, and three other cases. Nos. 7069, 7070, 7065, 7074. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. November 27, 1939. W. A. Seifert, W. W. Booth, Joseph G. Robinson, and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for petitioners at No. 7069 and respondents at No. 7070. William Wallace Booth and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for taxpayers. Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and...
107 F.2d 712 (1939) FITZSIMONS v. EAGLE BREWING CO. No. 7067. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. November 24, 1939. Linn H. Schantz, of Allentown, Pa., for appellant. Julius M. Rapoport, of Allentown, Pa., for appellee. Before BIGGS, MARIS, and CLARK, Circuit Judges. CLARK, Circuit Judge. The facts of the case at bar are reminiscent. The plaintiff-appellant, a Baltimorean, operating as the Camden Products Company (New Jersey), manufactured malt syrup, a primary ingredient in the brewing...
106 F.2d 213 (1939) UNITED STATES v. KLEIN, Escheator of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. No. 7066. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. August 7, 1939. Writ of Certiorari Denied December 11, 1939. J. Cullen Ganey, U. S. Atty., and Thomas J. Curtin, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Philadelphia, Pa. (Sam E. Whitaker, Asst. Atty. Gen., W. S. Ward and Tom De Wolfe, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Maurice W. Hibschman, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the United States. Albert H. Ladner, Jr., and A....
108 F.2d 521 (1939) FIELD v. FIDELITY UNION TRUST CO. et al. No. 7055. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. December 20, 1939. Russell C. MacFall, of Ridgewood, N. J., for appellant. Francis F. Welsh and Hood, Lafferty & Campbell, all of Newark, N. J. (Wallace R. Chandler, Jr., of Newark, N. J., of counsel), for defendants-appellees, Fidelity Union Trust Co and Minton H. Twinch, executors of Edith M. Peck, deceased. Before BIDDLE, JONES, and BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judges. BIDDLE, Circuit Judge....
108 F.2d 961 (1939) COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. ALLEN. No. 7050. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. December 22, 1939. *962 Edward H. Green, of New York City, Lawrence A. Baker, of Washington, D. C., and John F. Dooling, Jr., of New York City (Sullivan & Cromwell, of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner. Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Sewall Key, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and Richard H. Demuth, Sp. Atty., of Washington, D. C., for respondent. Before BIDDLE, JONES,...
106 F.2d 137 (1939) LUCKENBACH S. S. CO., Inc., v. NORTON, Deputy Commissioner, Third Compensation District, et al. No. 7036. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. August 3, 1939. *138 George F. Blewett, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant. Joseph Gross, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee. Before MARIS, BIDDLE, and BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judges. BIDDLE, Circuit Judge. This appeal involves construction of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (33 U.S.C.A. ยง 901 et seq.)....
106 F.2d 949 (1939) PUBLICKER v. SHALLCROSS et al. No. 7028. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. October 6, 1939. Harry Shapiro, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant. Morris Wolf and Edward A. G. Porter, both of Philadelphia, Pa. (Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen and Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, all of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellees. Before BIGGS, MARIS, and CLARK, Circuit Judges. CLARK, Circuit Judge. The first time this case came before us, counsel for appellant-respondent...
105 F.2d 948 (1939) WILSON & CO. v. BIRL et al. No. 7022. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. July 10, 1939. *949 Wm. A. Schnader, and Joseph S. Conwell, both of Philadelphia, Pa., Paul Ware, and Marshal Wiedel, both of Chicago, Ill., and Gilbert W. Oswald, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Pepper, Bodine, Stokes & Schoch, of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellant. Wm. A. Gray, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee Local No. 107. Albert J. Bader, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee Local 18571....
105 F.2d 331 (1939) SHAW'S, Inc., v. WILSON-JONES CO. No. 7015. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. June 28, 1939. Geo. P. Williams, Jr., and Orr, Hall & Williams, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant. John Sailer, Philip L. Leidy, and Frederick H. Spotts, all of Philadelphia, Pa. (Pepper, Bodine, Stokes & Schoch, of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellee. *332 Before BIGGS, MARIS, and CLARK, Circuit Judges. BIGGS, Circuit Judge. Shaw's, Inc., the appellant, a Pennsylvania...
107 F.2d 58 (1939) SEYMOUR et al. v. NATIONAL BISCUIT CO. No. 7012. Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. October 18, 1939. *59 John L. Seymour, of Wilmington, Del., for appellants. Hobart, Minard & Cooper, of Newark, N. J. (Ralph E. Cooper and John R. Hobart, both of Newark, N. J., of counsel), for appellee. Before BIGGS, MARIS, and BIDDLE, Circuit Judges. BIGGS, Circuit Judge. The appellants, who are respectively remaindermen and the executor of a remainderman under the will of Clara...
