New York Life Insurance Co. Et Al. v. Alexander, Executor, Et Al. , 57 S. Ct. 506 ( 1937 )

300 U.S. 637

57 S. Ct. 506

81 L. Ed. 854

NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and The American Surety Company, appellants,
v.
James A. ALEXANDER, Executor, etc.*

No. 622.

Supreme Court of the United States

March 1, 1937

Messrs. William H. Watkins and P. H. Eager, Jr., both of Jackson, Miss., and Louis H. Cooke, of New York City, for appellants.

Mr. W. E. Morse, of Jackson, Miss., for appellee.

For opinion below, see New York Life Ins. Co. v. Boling, 169 So. 882.

PER CURIAM.

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The motion of the appellees to dismiss the appeal is granted, and the appeal is dismissed for the reason that the judgment sought here to be reviewed is based upon a nonfederal ground adequate to support it. Enterprise Irrigation Dist. v. Canal Co., 243 U.S. 157, 163, 164, 37 S. Ct. 318, 61 L. Ed. 644; Fox Film Corp. v. Muller, 296 U.S. 207, 210, 211, 56 S. Ct. 183, 80 L. Ed. 158; Lansing Drop Forge Co. v. American State Savings Bank, 297 U.S. 697, 56 S. Ct. 593, 80 L. Ed. 987. See New York Life Insurance Company v. Blaylock, 144 Miss. 541, 110 So. 432.

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Rehearing denied 300 U.S. 688, 57 S. Ct. 667, 81 L.Ed. ——.