BANKRUPTCY.

Nature of Proceeding. Bankruptcy proceeding not suit in equity,
though court may exercise equity powers. Columbia Gas Corp. v.
American Fuel Co., 379.

BILL OF REVIEW. See Jurisdiction, III, 1.

BONDS.

Miller Act. Payment Bond. Subcontractor. Supplier of mate-
rialman not entitled to recover on payment bond furnished by con-
tractor pursuant to Miller Act. MacEvoy Co. v. U. S., 102.
BOUNDARIES.

Between States. Rivers. Land in dispute awarded to Missouri;
boundary to be fixed in accordance with recommendations of Spe-
cial Master; decree. Kansas v. Missouri, 213, 654.

CANNING. See Labor, 3-4.

CARRIERS. See Interstate Commerce Act; Motor Carriers.
CERTIFICATION. See Jurisdiction, II, 1.

CERTIORARI. See Jurisdiction, II, 7–9.

CHARTER PARTY. See Admiralty.

CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS. See Jurisdiction, III, 1–3.
CITIZENSHIP. See Aliens, 1-2.

CITY MANAGER. See Puerto Rico.

CIVIL RIGHTS. See Constitutional Law, I, 6; Criminal Law, 2.
COERCION. See Criminal Law, 3-5; Evidence, 5–9.

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. See Labor, 1–2.

COMMERCE. See Antitrust Acts; Constitutional Law, II, 1-8;
Interstate Commerce Act.

COMPELLED TESTIMONY. See Constitutional Law, VI, 1–5.

COMPENSATION. See Receivers, 1–2.

COMPLETION. See Contracts, 3-4.

CONCURRENT FINDINGS. See Jurisdiction, I, 9; II, 10-12.

CONFESSION. See Constitutional Law, VIII, 13-15; Criminal
Law, 3-5; Evidence, 5-9.

CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION. See Constitutional Law, I, 6;
Criminal Law, 2.

CONSPIRACY. See Antitrust Acts; Criminal Law, 2.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

I. Miscellaneous, p. 779.

II. Commerce Clause, p. 779.
III. Contract Clause, p. 780.
IV. First Amendment, p. 780.
V. Fourth Amendment, p. 780.
VI. Fifth Amendment, p. 780.
VII. Thirteenth Amendment, p. 781.
VIII. Fourteenth Amendment, p. 781.

I. Miscellaneous.

1. Challenging Constitutionality of Statute. Standing of cor-
poration to challenge constitutionality of Wisconsin Privilege
Dividend Tax. Harvester Co. v. Dept. of Taxation, 435.

2. Property of United States. Immunity from Taxation. State
tax on machinery owned by United States in plant of Government
contractor, invalid. U. S. v. Allegheny County, 174.

3. Id. Immunity from state tax not waived. Id.

4. Id. Invalidity of tax not dependent on where economic bur-
den falls. Id.

5. Id. Local governments may not impose compensatory or
retaliatory taxes on federal property interests. Id.

6. Elections. Right of voter in Congressional election to have
vote honestly counted. U. S. v. Saylor, 385.

II. Commerce Clause.

1. Federal Regulation. Insurance Business. Insurance busi-
ness conducted across state lines subject to federal regulation.
U. S. v. South-Eastern Underwriters Assn., 533.

2. Id. Application of National Labor Relations Act to activities
of insurance company constituting unfair labor practices "affecting
commerce," valid. Polish Alliance v. Labor Board, 643.

3. State Regulation. Foreign Corporations. Minnesota statute
denying foreign corporations right to sue in courts of State unless
authorized to do business in State, applicable to federally licensed
customhouse broker. Union Brokerage Co. v. Jensen, 202.

4. State Taxation. Minnesota tax on Minnesota corporation's
fleet of airplanes, where planes had home port and overhaul base
in State and none were continuously out of State, sustained.
Northwest Airlines v. Minnesota, 292.

5. Id. Application of Arkansas sales tax statute to sales con-
summated in Tennessee for Arkansas delivery, invalid. McLeod
v. Dilworth Co., 327.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-Continued.

6. Id. Iowa statute taxing use in Iowa of goods sold in Minne-
sota, and requiring seller to collect and pay tax to State, valid.
General Trading Co. v. State Tax Comm'n, 335.

7. Id. Indiana tax on gross receipts from classes of sales which,
though having incidental interstate attributes, involved taxable
transaction consummated in State, sustained. Harvester Co. v.
Dept. of Treasury, 340.

8. Id. State may tax gross receipts from interstate transactions
consummated within its borders, where it treats wholly local trans-
actions similarly. Id.

III. Contract Clause.

1. Generally. Where contract is between political subdivision
of State and private individual, obligation alleged to have been
impaired must be clearly and unequivocally expressed. Keefe v.
Clark, 393.

2. Impairment. Michigan statute authorizing tax sale of land
by State free of encumbrances did not impair obligation of drain
bonds. Id.

IV. First Amendment.

Freedom of Religion. Federal court properly withheld from
jury in criminal trial all questions of truth or falsity of defendants'
religious beliefs or doctrines. U. S. v. Ballard, 78.

V. Fourth Amendment.

Search and Seizure. Subpoena Duces Tecum. Officer of unin-
corporated labor union bound to produce books and records of
union. U. S. v. White, 694.

VI. Fifth Amendment.

1. Privilege Against Self-Incrimination. Self-incriminating tes-
timony theretofore compelled in state court admissible in evidence
against defendant in criminal prosecution in federal court. Feld-
man v. U. S., 487.

2. Id. Privilege against self-incrimination as personal. U. S.
v. White, 694.

3. Id. Papers and effects which privilege protects must be
private property of person claiming privilege or in his possession
in purely personal capacity. Id.

4. Id. Officer of unincorporated labor union bound to produce
books and records of union. Id.

5. Id. Whether person asserting privilege was member of union,
and whether union was subject to statute in relation to which the
investigation was being made, immaterial. Id.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-Continued.

VII. Thirteenth Amendment.

Peonage. Fiorida statute violated Thirteenth Amendment and
federal Antipeonage Act. Pollock v. Williams, 4.

VIII. Fourteenth Amendment.

1. Taxation. In determining constitutional validity, Court looks
to incidence and practical operation of tax, not to characterization
by state courts. Harvester Co. v. Dept. of Taxation, 435.

2. Id. State tax on receipts from intrastate transaction valid,
though total activities from which local transaction derives may
have incidental interstate attributes. Harvester Co. v. Dept. of
Treasury, 340.

3. Id. Personal Property. Airplanes. Minnesota tax on Min-
nesota corporation's fleet of airplanes, where planes had home port
and overhaul base in State and none were continuously out of State,
sustained. Northwest Airlines v. Minnesota, 292.

4. Wisconsin Privilege Dividend Tax. Tax on distribution of
earnings derived from corporate activity within State, valid. Har-
vester Co. v. Dept. of Taxation, 435.

5. Id. State may distribute burden of tax ratably among resi-
dent and nonresident stockholders. Id.

6. Id. Corporation may be required to deduct tax from earnings
distributed as dividends and to pay same to State. Id.

7. Id. State may postpone tax on earnings until their distribu-
tion. Id.

8. Id. Residence of stockholders within State not essential to
validity of tax. Id.

9. Id. Validity of tax unaffected by fact that power of corpora-
tion to declare dividends was created and exercised outside of the
State. Id.

10. Id Validity of tax unaffected by fact that stockholders un-
represented in legislature. Id.

11. Id. Question of retroactive application of tax not involved.
Id.

12. Criminal Cases. Fourteenth Amendment protects against
fundamental unfairness, but not against mere error in verdict.
Lyons v. Oklahoma, 596.

13. Id. Confessions. Circumstances under which alleged con-
fession was obtained were inherently coercive and vitiated convic-
tion. Ashcraft v. Tennessee, 143.

14. Id. Coerced confession did not render subsequent voluntary
confession inadmissible. Lyons v. Oklahoma, 596.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW—Continued.

15. Id. Instruction to jury fairly raised question whether confes-
sion was voluntary, and denied defendant no constitutional right.
Id.

CONTRACTS. See Admiralty; Constitutional Law, III, 1-2; Evi-
dence, 3; Peonage.

1. Validity. Contract as void because contrary to public policy.
American Seating Co. v. Zell, 709.

2. Government Contract. Construction. Under terms of Govern-
ment contract title to machinery was in United States. U. S. v.
Allegheny County, 174.

3. Id. Delay in Completion. Liquidated Damages. Govern-
ment not entitled to liquidated damages where it had terminated
contractor's right to proceed. U. S. v. American Surety Co., 96.

4. Id. Contract may restrict right to liquidated damages. Id.
CONTROL. See Motor Carriers, 2.

CORPORATIONS. See Constitutional Law, II, 3-4; VIII, 3-11;
Taxation, I, 1; II, 5, 9.

CRIMINAL LAW. See Antitrust Acts; Constitutional Law, IV;
V; VI, 1–5; VII; VIII, 12–15; Evidence, 1, 4–9; Jurisdiction, II, 3,
8, 13; Trial, 1-3; War, 1.

1. Offenses. Mann Act. Transportation of inmates of house of
prostitution on vacation trip not offense under Mann Act. Mor-
tensen v. U. S., 369.

2. Offenses. Conspiracy. Conspiracy by election officials to stuff
ballot box in Congressional election violated § 19 of Criminal Code.
U. S. v. Saylor, 385.

3. Confession. Coercion. Circumstances under which alleged
confession was obtained were inherently coercive and vitiated con-
viction. Ashcraft v. Tennessee, 143.

4. Id. Conviction of codefendant vacated and remanded. Id.
5. Id. Coerced confession did not render subsequent voluntary
confession inadmissible. Lyons v. Oklahoma, 596.

CULTURAL SOCIETIES. See Labor, 1.

CUSTOMHOUSE BROKERS. See Constitutional Law, II, 3.
CUSTOMS. See Constitutional Law, II, 3.

DAMAGES. See Contracts, 3-4.

DECREE.

See Colorado v. Kansas, 708; Kansas v. Missouri, 654.
DEDUCTIONS. See Taxation, I, 1-3.