TO ARGI-K MOTION* IX JINK
Counsel for Wealthy Asylum Inmate j
Relies on Diverse Claim of Citizen- !
slii|i to Keep Case in United Stands I
Court.
With the lone controversy over -th'.*
back tnxes of Thomas Fortune Ryan
brought to a successful conclusion, the
>.'ommonwealth of Vfplnla- has renew *d
Us ?.fj.'.'ts t o hasten tho n'Jjubt nient
of the Marie Marnhfill casf., in which
the city of Williamsburg and tho
State arc cktlmlnr back taxes aKj?re
K.'itinp- SSflO.OOO,
Christopher ft. Garnett, actinsr for
tho Attorney-General. appeared beforo
tlie l.'nltpil States District I'ourt in
Norfolk Muiidiiy and moved that the
case be remanded tr the Circuit Court
of Williamsburg and James City. The
motion will be argued hefore Judce
IMmmnl Wail dill, ,lr., some time In
June.
The case was taken to the Federal
courts at tho Instnrec of counsel for
tho Marshall estate, who. claiming that
Miss Marshall is a citizen of New York,
made the point that the case was one
in which a sovereign Commonwealth
was suinu an individual of another
State, and that must necessarily, there
fore. be tried in the Cnlted States
courts. This view Is contested
State of Virginia, wliirh seeks
justment of the controversy
Stato courts.
tf the assessments against the Mar
shall estate are finally upheld, tho State
will receive ns it* share of th>* back
by the
an ad
in the
The Best in Motion
At
lllu
IX I Pictures | 'n',r<^
^ Change of Program ^
0 T"'"> O
M KTftO PICTL*?IKS T'
Presents *~*
^ llHiullton ne\-rllr o
N N
1 Mnreurritr Snow I
A "? A
"rino iif.d not sk." ?
Prepared for pictures from the
suecessful play of the same name
with two of the most popular and
capable stars.
