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Laser Grain Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. United States of America
244 U.S. 647·Supreme Court of the United States·1917
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Opinion
No. 658.
Laser Grain Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. United States of America.
In error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Motion to require plaintiff in error to elect, etc., or to dismiss, submitted May 21, 1917.
Decided June 4, 1917.
Mr. John S. Leahy, Mr. Irvin V. Barth and Mr.' Walter H. Saunders for plaintiff in error.
The Solicitor General for the United States.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam.]
Per Curiam.
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Hannis Distilling Co. v. Baltimore, 216 U. S. 285; Hendricks v. United States, 223 U. S. 178, 184. See In re Palliser, 136 U. S. 257, 265-268; Horner v. United States, 143 U. S. 207, 214; Benson v. Henkel, 198 U. S. 1, 15; United States v. Thayer, 209 U. S. 39, 44; Hyde v. United States, 225 U. S. 347, 361.