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# United States Reports/Volume 314

UNITED STATES REPORTS
VOLUME 314
CASES ADJUDGED
IN
THE SUPREME COURT
AT
OCTOBER TERM, 1941
FROM OCTOBER 6, 1941, TO AND INCLUDING JANUARY 5, 1942
ERNEST KNAEBEL REPORTER
united states government printing office WASHINGTON: 1942
TABLE OF CASES REPORTED.
* 314 U.S. 1 (1941) Alabama v. King & Boozer
* 314 U.S. 14 (1941) Curry v. United States
* 314 U.S. 19 (1941) Bernards v. Johnson
* 314 U.S. 33 (1941) Reitz v. Mealey
* 314 U.S. 44 (1941) Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. Kepner
* 314 U.S. 63 (1941) City of Indianapolis v. Chase National Bank of New York
* 314 U.S. 84 (1941) Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation
* 314 U.S. 94 (1941) Automatic Devices Corporation v. Sinko Tool & Manufacturing Company
* 314 U.S. 95 (1941) Federal Land Bank of St. Paul v. Bismarck Lumber Company
* 314 U.S. 104 (1941) Commercial Molasses Corporation v. N.Y. Barge Corporation
* 314 U.S. 118 (1941) Toucey v. New York Life Insurance Company Phoenix Finance Corporation
* 314 U.S. 155 (1941) Southern Railway Company v. Painter
* 314 U.S. 160 (1941) Edwards v. California
* 314 U.S. 186 (1941) United States v. Kales
* 314 U.S. 201 (1942) Pink v. AAA Highway Express
* 314 U.S. 212 (1941) United States v. Kansas Flour Mills Corporation
* 314 U.S. 219 (1941) Lisenba v. California
* 314 U.S. 244 (1941) Parker v. Motor Boat Sales
* 314 U.S. 252 (1941) Bridges v. California ex rel. Times-Mirror Company
* 314 U.S. 306 (1941) Pierce v. United States
* 314 U.S. 314 (1941) American Surety Company of New York v. Bethlehem National Bank of Bethlehem Pa
* 314 U.S. 326 (1941) Textile Mills Securities Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
* 314 U.S. 339 (1941) United States v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company
* 314 U.S. 360 (1941) New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad Company v. Frank
* 314 U.S. 390 (1941) Duckworth v. Arkansas
* 314 U.S. 402 (1941) Gray v. Powell
* 314 U.S. 423 (1941) United States v. Emory
* 314 U.S. 441 (1941) District of Columbia v. Murphy District of Columbia
* 314 U.S. 459 (1941) Scaife Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
* 314 U.S. 463 (1941) Helvering v. Lerner Stores Corporation
* 314 U.S. 469 (1941) National Labor Relations Board v. Virginia Electric & Power Company
* 314 U.S. 480 (1941) United States v. Texas
* 314 U.S. 488 (1942) Morton Salt Company v. G. S. Suppiger Company
* 314 U.S. 495 (1942) Chemical Company v. Ellis
* 314 U.S. 498 (1942) Illinois Natural Gas Company v. Central Illinois Public Service Company
* 314 U.S. 510 (1942) Ex parte Colonna
* 314 U.S. 512 (1942) National Labor Relations Board v. P. Lorillard Company
* 314 U.S. 513 (1942) United States v. Ragen
* 314 U.S. 527 (1942) Continental Casualty Company v. United States
* 314 U.S. 534 (1942) Board of Trade of Kansas City v. United States
* 314 U.S. 549 (1942) Fischer v. American United Life Insurance Company
* 314 U.S. 556 (1942) Irving Trust Company v. Day
* 314 U.S. 564 (1942) Meilink v. Unemployment Reserves Commission of California
# United States Reports/Volume 313

UNITED STATES REPORTS
VOLUME 313
CASES ADJUDGED
IN
THE SUPREME COURT
AT
OCTOBER TERM, 1940
FROM MARCH 31, 1941 (CONCLUDED), TO AND INCLUDING (IN PART) JUNE 2, 1941
ERNEST KNAEBEL REPORTER
united states government printing office WASHINGTON: 1941
TABLE OF CASES REPORTED.
* 313 U.S. 1 (1941) Maguire v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
* 313 U.S. 11 (1941) Helvering v. Gambrill
* 313 U.S. 15 (1941) Helvering v. Campbell
* 313 U.S. 23 (1941) National Labor Relations Board v. White Swan Company
* 313 U.S. 28 (1941) Hort v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
* 313 U.S. 33 (1941) Nye v. United States
* 313 U.S. 57 (1941) United States v. Resler
* 313 U.S. 62 (1941) Department of Treasury of Indiana v. Wood Preserving Corporation
* 313 U.S. 69 (1941) Skiriotes v. Florida
* 313 U.S. 80 (1941) Mitchell v. United States
* 313 U.S. 98 (1941) Hudson Mr Company v. United States
* 313 U.S. 100 (1941) Shamrock Oil Gas Corporation v. Sheets
* 313 U.S. 109 (1941) California v. Thompson
* 313 U.S. 117 (1941) Caskey Baking Company v. Virginia
* 313 U.S. 121 (1941) City Bank Farmers Trust Company v. Helvering
* 313 U.S. 127 (1941) United States v. Pyne
* 313 U.S. 132 (1941) Arkansas Corporation Commission v. Thompson
* 313 U.S. 146 (1941) Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. National Labor Relations Board
* 313 U.S. 177 (1941) Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board
* 313 U.S. 212 (1941) Continental Oil Company v. National Labor Relations Board
* 313 U.S. 215 (1941) Sampsell v. Imperial Paper & Color Corporation
* 313 U.S. 221 (1941) Gelfert v. National City Bank of New York
* 313 U.S. 236 (1941) Olsen v. Nebraska ex rel. Western Reference & Bond Association
* 313 U.S. 247 (1941) Helvering v. William Flaccus Oak Leather Company
* 313 U.S. 252 (1941) Department of Treasury of Indiana v. Ingram-Richardson Manufacturing Company of Indiana
* 313 U.S. 256 (1941) Jenkins v. Kurn
* 313 U.S. 259 (1941) Detrola Radio & Television Corporation v. Hazeltine Corporation
* 313 U.S. 270 (1941) Benitez Sampayo v. Bank of Nova Scotia
* 313 U.S. 274 (1941) United States v. Alabama
* 313 U.S. 283 (1941) City of New York v. Feiring
* 313 U.S. 289 (1941) Royal Indemnity Company v. United States
* 313 U.S. 299 (1941) United States v. Classic
* 313 U.S. 342 (1941) Holiday v. Johnston
* 313 U.S. 342 (1941) Holiday v. Johnston
* 313 U.S. 354 (1941) Brooks v. Dewar
* 313 U.S. 362 (1941) Wood v. Lovett
* 313 U.S. 387 (1941) Watson v. Buck
* 313 U.S. 406 (1941) Marsh v. Buck
* 313 U.S. 409 (1941) United States v. Morgan
* 313 U.S. 428 (1941) Helvering v. Reynolds
* 313 U.S. 441 (1941) Cary v. Vcommissioner of Internal Revenue
* 313 U.S. 443 (1941) United States v. A. S. Kreider Company
* 313 U.S. 450 (1941) Unio Pacific Company v. United States
* 313 U.S. 487 (1941) Klaxon Company v. Stentor Electric & Manufacturing Company
* 313 U.S. 498 (1941) Griffin v. McCoach
* 313 U.S. 508 (1941) Oklahoma ex rel. Phillips v. Guy F. Atkinson Company
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 57

Chap. LVII.—An Act to confirm to the city of Fernandina in Florida, certain lots reserved for public use by the Spanish Government.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Two lots granted for purposes designed by Spanish government. Proviso. That lots, numbers five and seven of block number two, in the plan of the city of Fernandina, be and are hereby confirmed and relinquished to the corporate authorities of the said city for such uses as were designed by the Spanish Government in the original plan of the said city: Provided, That before the issue of patents for the same, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the President of the United States, that the said lots were intended to be reserved in the plan of said city, for a public use.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 58

Chap. LVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five:
Invalid pensions.To pay invalid pensions, forty thousand dollars;
Widows’ pensions under act of June 30, 1834, ch. 134.To pay widows’ pensions, under the act of thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, six thousand dollars;
Widows and orphans, act of March 3, 1837, ch. 42.To pay widows’ and orphans’ pensions, under the act of third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, sixteen thousand dollars.
Invalid pensions, from the time they were stopped.For payment of invalid pensioners, heretofore paid from the privateer pension fund, their several pensions to commence from the time they were stopped in consequence of the exhaustion of said fund, eighteen thousand dollars;
Widows and orphans of persons lost in the Grampus and Sea gull. 1844, ch. 53.For payment of pensions to the widows and orphans of those persons who were lost in the United States’ schooner Sea Gull and in the United States’ schooner Grampus, agreeably to the provisions of an act passed at the present session entitled “An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen and marines of the United States’ schooner Grampus,” ten thousand dollars.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 54

Chap. LIV.—An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act directing the survey of the northern line of the reservation for the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox tribes of Indians, by the treaty of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four,” approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
March 3, 1843, ch. 88. Act of March 3, 1843, repealed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act directing the survey of the northern line of the reservation for the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox tribes of Indians, by the treaty of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four,” be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Norhtern line run by J. S. Sprigg to be northern boundary of reservation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the northern line of said reservation, as run and marked by Jennifer S. Sprigg, in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, under contract with William Clark, superintendent of Indian affairs, be, and the same is hereby, ratified, approved, and established, as the correct northern boundary of said reservation.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 55

Chap. LV.—An Act to authorize the selection of certain school lands in the Territories of Florida, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,When a 16th section is included in a private claim, lands adjacent may be selected in lieu. That wherever the sixteenth section in said Territories, either in whole or in part, are now, or may hereafter be, included in private claims held by titles confirmed or legally decided to be valid and sufficient, other lands equivalent thereto, within any land district in said Territories most adjacent to said lands so taken up by private claims, “which have been offered at public sale, and remain unsold,” may be selected in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: and the lands so selected shall be entered in the office of the register of the land district in which they may lie, and be by such register reported to the Commissioner of the General Land Office as school lands under this act:Proviso. Provided―That, before making any entry of such other lands, the case shall be made out to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of said district, agreeably to rules to be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the purpose of showing that the sixteenth section, or part thereof, has been included in the manner above mentioned.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 56

Chap. LVI.—An Act granting to the county of Dubuque, certain lots of ground in the town of Dubuque.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Two half lots granted to the town. That the following described pieces or parcels of land are hereby granted and given to the county of Dubuque, in the Territory of Iowa, to wit: Two lots and a half lying and being situate in the town of Dubuque, on the northwest corner of Seventh and Locust streets, in said county, being the same land upon which the old county jail now stands, and is designated on the Government plat of said town as “public square.”
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the county commissioners of the county of Dubuque be, and they are hereby authorized and ​Two lots may be disposed of by the county commissioners.empowered to make sale, or otherwise dispose of the lots of land described in the first section of this act, in such manner as will best subserve the interests of said county.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 51

Chap. LI.—An Act relating to certain collection districts, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Certain collection districts abolished, and annexed to other districts. That from and after the passage of this act, the districts of Ipswich, Massachusetts, St. Mary’s, and Snow Hill, Maryland, Folly Landing and East River, Virginia, and Sunbury, Hardwick, and Brunswick, Georgia, shall be, and hereby are, abolished as separate collection districts, and shall hereafter be annexed to other districts, as follows, that is to say: Ipswich, to the district of Newburyport; St. Mary’s, Maryland, to Annapolis; Snow Hill, to Vienna; Folly Landing, to Cherrystone; East River, to Yorktown; Sunbury and Hardwick to Savannah; and Brunswick to St. Mary’s, Georgia:Proviso. Provided, That the following places shall be, and are hereby, constituted ports of delivery, at each or any of which the President of the United States is authorized (if deemed necessary for the public interests) to appoint surveyors of the customs, to wit: At Ipswich, Massachusetts; St. Mary’s and Snow Hill, Maryland; Sunbury, Hardwick, and Brunswick, Georgia; at or near Folly Landing, East River, Virginia;Proviso. And provided, That the following mentioned ports of delivery are hereby discontinued, and the office of surveyor established at said ports, respectively, is hereby abolished, to wit: Chester and Nanjemoy, Maryland; South Quay, Virginia; Hertford, Murfreesborough, and Swansborough, North Carolina:Proviso. 1811, ch. 33. And provided, also, That the office of assistant collector, to reside at the town of Jersey, in the State of New Jersey, authorized by the act approved March two, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, is hereby abolished.
Shieldsborough, Miss., to be a port of entry, and Perlington not.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, the town of Shieldsborough, on the bay of St. Louis, in the State of Mississippi, shall be a port of entry for the district of Pearl River, and the collector of said district shall reside at said Shieldsborough; and the present port of entry at Pearlington, in said district, shall cease to be the port of entry:Proviso. Provided, That Pearlington for said district, shall be, and hereby is, constituted a port of delivery.
To be called the district of New Orleans.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the name of the district hereinafter mentioned shall be changed, and bear the following name, that is to say, Mississippi to be called the district of New Orleans.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 53

Chap. LIII.—An Act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen and marines of the United States schooner Grampus, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,For fixing time of pensions, &c. That for the purpose of fixing the time at which shall commence the pensions, under the existing laws, of the widows of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were lost in the United States schooner Grampus, as well as the time to which the said officers, seamen, and marines, shall be allowed, the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three,March 20, 1843, to be considered the day the Grampus foundered; and May 1, 1839, as the day on which the Sea Gull was lost. shall be deemed and taken to be the day on which the said schooner Grampus foundered at sea; and that, for the like purposes, the first day of May, one thousnad eight hundred and thirty-nine, shall be deemed and taken to be the day on which the United States schooner Sea Gull was lost in like manner.
If there is no widow, but children under 16, they are to have the pension.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any of the said officers, seamen, or marines, shall have left no widow, or having left a widow she shall have died before the passage of this act, and there shall be living at the date of the passage of this act, a child or children of said officers, seamen, or marines, under sixteen years of age, such child or children shall be entitled to the same pension to which the widow, had there been one as aforesaid, would have been entitled, for the like period of five years;In case of death or intermarriage of widow, pension to go to children. Proviso. but in case of the death or intermarriage of the widow before the expiration of the said term of five years, the said pension for the remainder of the said term, shall go to the child or children of the said deceased officer, seamen, or marine: Provided, That such pension shall cease upon the death of such child or children.
J.S. Thacher’s accounts to be settled, &c.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to settle the accounts of James S. Thacher, late purser in the navy, who was lost in said schooner Grampus, with all his accounts, and vouchers for expenditures and payments made by him, and with all the money, ​stores and supplies procured for the use of said vessel, and to allow him a credit for whatever sum appears to be due from him on the books of the department.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 60

Chap. LX.—An Act making appropriations for certain improvements on the western shore of Lake Michigan.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Harbor at Southport, Wisconsin. That the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars be, and is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of a harbor at the town of Southport, in the Territory of Wisconsin.
Topographical engineers to select location.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the corps of topographical engineers shall select, from actual examination and survey, the point of location of said harbor.
Money to be expended under direction of War Dep’t.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the money hereby appropriated shall be expended under the direction of the War Department.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 52

Chap. LII.—An Act to establish a navy yard and depot at or adjacent to the city of Memphis, on the Mississippi river, in the State of Tennessee.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,President to select and purchase a site, erect buildings, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to selected and purchase a site for a navy yard and depot at the city of Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, and to erect such buildings and make such improvements thereon as may be necessary for the construction and repair, and for the accommodation and supply, of vessels of war of the United States; and that the President be authorized and empowered to purchase any water rights which may be required to propel the machinery appertaining to said navy yard, or which may be useful in the operations of said navy yard; and that he be further empowered to receive any donations of lands, water rights, or rights of way, which the authorities of the city of Memphis, or any other body corporate, or any person or persons, may deem proper to make or grant to the Government of the United States;Appropriation. and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be appropriated to the objects aforesaid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 59

Chap. LIX.—An Act to test the utility of the sub-marine telescope.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. Navy to institute the experiments to test it. That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized and directed to institute such experiments under the superintendence of competent and trustworthy persons, as will fully test the utility of the sub-marine telescope invented by Mrs. Sarah P. Mather, and ascertain its value, if any, to the public service; and the expenses of which shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:Proviso. Provided, That said expenses shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
# United States v. Company Commissioners County of Dodge

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United States Supreme Court
110 U.S. 156
United States v. Company Commissioners County of Dodge
W. H. Munger, Lewis A. Groff, and C. S. Montgomery, for plaintiff in error.
Wm. Marshall, for defendants in error.
GRAY, J.

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# United States v. Commodore Park

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United States Supreme Court
324 U.S. 386
United States v. Commodore Park
Argued: Feb. 9, 1945. --- Decided: March 26, 1945
Mr. Charles Fahy, Sol. Gen., of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Mr. W. R. Ashburn, of Norfolk, Va., for respondent.
Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# United States v. Commonwealth & Dominion Line

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United States Supreme Court
278 U.S. 427
United States v. Commonwealth & Dominion Line
Argued: Jan. 7, 1929. --- Decided: Jan 21, 1929
The Attorney General and Mr. George R. Farnum, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States.
Messrs. Allan B. A. Bradley and George De Forest Lord, both of New York City, for respondent.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# United States v. Commonwealth Title Insurance Trust Company

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United States Supreme Court
193 U.S. 651
United States v. Commonwealth Title Insurance Trust Company
Argued: March 3, 1904. --- Decided: April 4, 1904
Assistant Attorney General Pradt and Mr. George Hines Gorman for appellant.
Mr. William R. Andrews for appellee.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 652-653 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the court:

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# United States v. Alcea Band of Tillamooks

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