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p. 584No. 277. No. 278. No. 279. No. 280. John H. Ford v. Guy Sturgis, Administrator, etc.; Union Iron Works v. Guy Sturgis, Administrator, etc.; Reginald W. Geare v. Guy Sturgis, Administrator, etc.; and Frank L. Wagner v. Nicholas Appelbaum, Administrator, etc. Argued November 21, 1924. Decided November 21, 1924, and form of order corrected December 1, 1924.
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On certificate from the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.Mr. Daniel Thew Wright, with whom Mr. Philip Ershler was on the brief, for Geare. Mr. John 8. Barbour, Mr. J. C. Gibson and Mr. J. W. Hazell appeared for Ford. Mr. John 8. Barbour appeared for Union Iron Works. Mr. W. C. Sullivan appeared for Wagner. Mr. Hoke Smith, Mr. Charles A. Douglas, Mr. Conrad H. Syme and Mr. Joseph W. Cox appeared for Sturgis, Administrator. Mr. Lawrence Koenigsberger, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amicus curiae in No. 280.
The certificate from the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in each case is dismissed for the reason that the questions or propositions of law certified therein are not such as may be certified under § 251 of the Judicial Code. See Biddle v. Luvisch, ante, 173, and cases there cited.