Case Name: Frank C. Mebane, as Receiver of Symes Foundation, Inc., and American Title and Trust Company v. Staten Island Railway Company, Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company, New York Transit and Terminal Company et al.
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1927-01-17
Citations: 273 U.S. 659
Docket Number: No. 126
Parties: Frank C. Mebane, as Receiver of Symes Foundation, Inc., and American Title and Trust Company v. Staten Island Railway Company, Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company, New York Transit and Terminal Company et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 273
Pages: 659–659

Head Matter:
No. 126.
Frank C. Mebane, as Receiver of Symes Foundation, Inc., and American Title and Trust Company v. Staten Island Railway Company, Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company, New York Transit and Terminal Company et al.
Argued January 14, 1927.
Decided January 17, 1927.
Messrs. Hugh H. O’Bear and Benjamin Catchings, with whom Messrs. Merle I. St. John and Charles A. Douglas were on the briefs, for plaintiffs in error.
Messrs. John W. Welsh, John F. Hughes, Q. S. Gilbert, Royal E. T. Riggs, Morgan J. O’Brien, Albert B. Boardman, and Albert Ottinger were on the brief for defendants in error.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction for want of a substantial Federal constitutional question on the authority of Farrell v. O'Brien, 199 U. S. 89,100; Toopv. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power and Light Co. y. Town of Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195; Seaboard Air Line v. Padgett, 236 U. S. 668, 671.