
    No. 105.
    Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland v. State of North Carolina on the Relation of W. D. Smith.
    Error to the Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina.
    Argued December 1, 1927.
    Decided December 5, 1927.
    
      Mr. H. G. Hudson, with whom Mr. Washington Bowie; Jr., was on the brief, for plaintiff in error. Messrs. A. E. Holton and J. E. Alexander were on the brief for defendant in error.
   Per Curiam.'

The writ of error is dismissed for want of a final judgment in the highest court of the State as required by § 237 (a) of the Judicial Code, as amended by the act of February 13, 1925 (43 Stat. 936, 937), on the authority of Haseltine v. Central Bank of Springfield (No. 1), 183 U. S. 130, 131; Arnold v. United States, 263 U. S. 427, 434.  