NATIONAL REPORTER SYSTEM-UNITED STATES SERIES THE SUPREME COURT REPORTER VOLUME 47 PERMANENT EDITION CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE WITH KEY-NUMBER ANNOTATIONS NOVEMBER, 1926 AUGUST, 1927 ST. PAUL WEST PUBLISHING CO. 1928 47 S.CT. COPYRIGHT 1926, BY WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1927, BY WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1928, BY WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY ALLOTMENT OF THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (Order of March 16, 1925.) FIRST CIRCUIT. Comprising Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, of Massachusetts. Appointed De- SECOND CIRCUIT. Comprising Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. JUSTICE HARLAN FISKE STONE, of New York. Appointed February 5, THIRD CIRCUIT. Comprising Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. JUSTICE LOUIS Q. BRANDEIS, of Massachusetts. Appointed June 1, 1916, FOURTH CIRCUIT. Comprising Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, of Connecticut. Appointed June FIFTH CIRCUIT. Comprising Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and JUSTICE EDWARD T. SANFORD, of Tennessee. Appointed January 29, 1923, by SIXTH CIRCUIT. Comprising Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. JUSTICE JAMES C. McREYNOLDS, of Tennessee. Appointed August 29, 1914, Comprising Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne- Utah, and Wyoming. JUSTICE WILLIS VAN DEVANTER, of Wyoming. Appointed December 16, NINTH CIRCUIT. Comprising Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, JUSTICE GEORGE SUTHERLAND, of Utah. Appointed September 18, 1922, |