
    No. 897.
    J. E. Riley Investment Co. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
    May 20, 1940.
    
      Messrs. Robert Ash and William J. Sebald for petitioner.
    
      Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney General Clark, and Messrs. Sewall Key, Joseph M. Jones, and Richard H. Demuth for respondent.
   Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.  