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Saxe v. Shea, Administrator
305 U.S. 589·Supreme Court of the United States·1938
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Opinion
No. 417.
Saxe v. Shea, Administrator.
November 14, 1938.
Mr. Thomas D. Thacher for petitioner.
Solicitor General Jackson, Assistant Attorney General Morris, and Messrs. J. Louis Monarch, Berryman Green, and Warner W. Gardner for respondent.
By leave of Court, Messrs. John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney General of New York, and Henry Epstein, Solicitor General, filed a brief on behalf of that State, as amicus curiae, in support of the petitioner.
[MAJORITY]
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted.