This is a list of cases reported in volume 238 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1915.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 238 U.S.

The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court . . .". The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to Congress to set the number of justices. Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 Congress originally fixed the number of justices at six (one chief justice and five associate justices). Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to seven, nine, ten, and back to nine justices (always including one chief justice).

When the cases in volume 238 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

Portrait Justice Office Home State Succeeded Date confirmed by the Senate(Vote) Tenure on Supreme Court Edward Douglass White Chief Justice Louisiana Melville Fuller (Acclamation) –May 19, 1921(Died) Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field (Acclamation) –January 5, 1925(Retired) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate Justice Massachusetts Horace Gray (Acclamation) –January 12, 1932(Retired) William R. Day Associate Justice Ohio George Shiras Jr. (Acclamation) –November 13, 1922(Retired) Charles Evans Hughes Associate Justice New York David Josiah Brewer (Acclamation) –June 10, 1916(Resigned) Willis Van Devanter Associate Justice Wyoming Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) (Acclamation) –June 2, 1937(Retired) Joseph Rucker Lamar Associate Justice Georgia William Henry Moody (Acclamation) –January 2, 1916(Died) Mahlon Pitney Associate Justice New Jersey John Marshall Harlan (50–26) –December 31, 1922(Resigned) James Clark McReynolds Associate Justice Tennessee Horace Harmon Lurton (44–6) –January 31, 1941(Retired)

Citation style

Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 the federal court structure at the time comprised District Courts, which had general trial jurisdiction; Circuit Courts, which had mixed trial and appellate (from the US District Courts) jurisdiction; and the United States Supreme Court, which had appellate jurisdiction over the federal District and Circuit courts—and for certain issues over state courts. The Supreme Court also had limited original jurisdiction (i.e., in which cases could be filed directly with the Supreme Court without first having been heard by a lower federal or state court). There were one or more federal District Courts and/or Circuit Courts in each state, territory, or other geographical region.

The Judiciary Act of 1891 created the United States Courts of Appeals and reassigned the jurisdiction of most routine appeals from the district and circuit courts to these appellate courts. The Act created nine new courts that were originally known as the "United States Circuit Courts of Appeals." The new courts had jurisdiction over most appeals of lower court decisions. The Supreme Court could review either legal issues that a court of appeals certified or decisions of court of appeals by writ of certiorari. On January 1, 1912, the effective date of the Judicial Code of 1911, the old Circuit Courts were abolished, with their remaining trial court jurisdiction transferred to the U.S. District Courts.

Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions. "# Cir." = United States Court of Appeals e.g., "3d Cir." = United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit "D." = United States District Court for the District of . . . e.g.,"D. Mass." = United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts "E." = Eastern; "M." = Middle; "N." = Northern; "S." = Southern; "W." = Western e.g.,"M.D. Ala." = United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama "Ct. Cl." = United States Court of Claims The abbreviation of a state's name alone indicates the highest appellate court in that state's judiciary at the time. e.g.,"Pa." = Supreme Court of Pennsylvania e.g.,"Me." = Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

List of cases in volume 238 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition of case Louisville & N.R.R. Co. v. United States 1 (1915) Lamar none none M.D. Tenn. affirmed Kreitlein v. Ferger 21 (1915) Lamar none Day Ind. App. Ct. reversed Mallinckrodt C.W. v. Missouri ex rel. Jones 41 (1915) Pitney none none Mo. affirmed Atchison et al. R.R. Co. v. Vosburg 56 (1915) Pitney none none Kan. reversed Rossi v. Pennsylvania 62 (1915) Pitney none none Pa. Super. Ct. reversed Chicago & A.R.R. Co. v. Tranbarger 67 (1915) Pitney none none Mo. affirmed United States v. Rabinowich 78 (1915) Pitney none none S.D.N.Y. reversed Pyle v. Texas T. & T. Co. 90 (1915) McReynolds none none 5th Cir. affirmed McMicking v. Schields 99 (1915) McReynolds none none Phil. reversed Herrmann v. Edwards 107 (1915) White none none E.D. Mo. affirmed Kapiolani Estate, Ltd. v. Atcherley 119 (1915) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. reversed United S. Co. v. American F.P. Co. 140 (1915) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. dismissed Equitable L.A. Soc'y v. Pennsylvania 143 (1915) Holmes none none Dauphin Cnty. Ct. Com. Pl. affirmed Perryman v. Woodward 148 (1915) Holmes none none Okla. affirmed Des Moines G. Co. v. City of Des Moines 153 (1915) Day none none S.D. Iowa affirmed Milwaukee et al. Co. v. Wisconsin R.R. Comm'n 174 (1915) Day none none Wis. affirmed Washington V.R.R. Co. v. Real Estate T. Co. 185 (1915) Day none none E.D. Pa. affirmed Adams Express Co. v. Kentucky190 (1915) Day none none Ky. Cir. Ct. reversed Virginia v. West Virginia 202 (1915) Hughes none none original decree on bonds St. Louis & S.F.R.R. Co. v. Conarty 243 (1915) VanDevanter none none Ark. reversed Pennsylvania R.R. Co. v. Mitchell C. & C. Co. 251 (1915) VanDevanter none none Pa. affirmed Geneva F. Mfg. Co. v. Karpen & Bros. 254 (1915) VanDevanter none none N.D. Ill. reversed New York et al. R.R. Co. v. Carr 260 (1915) Lamar none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed McDonald v. Pless 264 (1915) Lamar none none 4th Cir. affirmed Norfolk & S.R.R. Co. v. Ferebee 269 (1915) Lamar none none N.C. affirmed Illinois C.R.R. Co. v. Mulberry Hill C. Co. 275 (1915) Pitney none none Ill. affirmed Woodward v. De Graffenried 284 (1915) Pitney none none Okla. affirmed Texas & P.R.R. Co. v. Murphy 320 (1915) Pitney none none 5th Cir. affirmed Producers O. Co. v. Hanzen 325 (1915) McReynolds none none La. affirmed Great N.R.R. Co. v. Minnesota ex rel. S.R.R. & W.C. 340 (1915) McReynolds none none Minn. reversed Guinn v. United States 347 (1915) White none none 8th Cir. certification Myers v. Anderson368 (1915) White none none C.C.D. Md. affirmed United States v. Mosley 383 (1915) Holmes none Lamar W.D. Okla. reversed Oregon & C.R.R. Co. v. United States 393 (1915) McKenna none none 9th Cir. reversed Delaware et al. R.R. Co. v. Yurkonis 439 (1915) Day none none 2d Cir. dismissed Price v. Illinois 446 (1915) Hughes none none Ill. affirmed Pennsylvania R.R. Co. v. Clark Bros. C.M. Co. 456 (1915) Hughes none none Pa. reversed Mills v. Lehigh V.R.R. Co. 473 (1915) Hughes none none 3d Cir. reversed Southwest T. & T. Co. v. Danaher 482 (1915) VanDevanter none none Ark. reversed Chicago et al. R.R. Co. v. Wisconsin 491 (1915) Lamar none none Wis. reversed Wells Fargo & Co. Ex. v. Ford 503 (1915) Lamar none none Madison Cnty. Ct. affirmed Central V.R.R. Co. v. White 507 (1915) Lamar none none Vt. affirmed United States v. Delaware et al. R.R. Co. 516 (1915) Lamar none none D.N.J. reversed Newman v. United States ex rel. Frizzell 537 (1915) Lamar none none D.C. Cir. reversed United States v. Hiawassee L. Co. 553 (1915) Pitney none none 4th Cir. reversed Chater v. Carter 572 (1915) Pitney none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. affirmed Brand v. Union E.R.R. Co. 586 (1915) McReynolds none Day Ill. affirmed Kansas City & S.R.R. Co. v. Leslie 599 (1915) McReynolds none none Ark. reversed

Notes and references

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