WHITE v. MECHANICS SECURITIES CORP.

Nos. 423, 424, 425, 430, 431, 809, 810.

269 U.S. 283 (1925)

WHITE, TREASURER, ET AL. v. MECHANICS SECURITIES CORPORATION. UNITED STATES v. SECURITIES CORPORATION GENERAL. WHITE, TREASURER, ET AL. v. SECURITIES CORPORATION GENERAL. UNITED STATES v. EQUITABLE TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK. HICKS, ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN, ET AL. v. EQUITABLE TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK. HICKS, ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN, ET AL. v. MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 14, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Dean Hill Stanley, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Assistant Attorney General Letts were on the briefs, for appellants and petitioners.

Mr. M. Carter Hall, with whom Mr. C.C. Carlin was on the brief, for appellee, in Nos. 423, 424 and 425.

Mr. Samuel W. Fordyce, with whom Messrs. John H. Holliday and Thomas W. White were on the brief, for respondent, in Nos. 809 and 810.

Mr. Frederic D. McKenney, with whom Messrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich, John Spalding Flannery and G. Bowdoin Craighill were on the brief, for appellee, in Nos. 430 and 431.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The cases numbered from 423 to 445 inclusive are appeals from decrees of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. They were decided under an opinion reported in 4 Fed. (2d) 619; No. 423 being disposed of per curiam, on the authority of that decision, in 4 Fed. (2d) 624. The other two cases, numbers 809 and 810...

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