This is a list of cases reported in volume 241 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1916.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 241 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 241 were decided the Court comprised the following eight members, following Justice Lamar's death in January 1916:

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) 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 241 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Chin Fong v. Backus1 (1916) McKenna none none N.D. Cal. dismissed Kelly v. Griffin6 (1916) Holmes none none N.D. Ill. affirmed Osborne v. Gray16 (1916) Hughes none none Tenn. affirmed G. and C. Merriam Co. v. Saalfield and Ogilvie22 (1916) Pitney none none N.D. Ohio affirmed Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Rigsby33 (1916) Pitney none none 5th Cir. affirmed Richardson v. Fajardo Sugar Company44 (1916) McReynolds none none D.P.R. affirmed Rosenberger v. Pacific Express Company48 (1916) White none none Mo. reversed Menasha Paper Company v. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company55 (1916) McKenna none none Wis. affirmed United States v. New South Farm and Home Company64 (1916) McKenna none none S.D. Fla. reversed United States v. Lombardo73 (1916) McKenna none none W.D. Wash. affirmed McFarland v. American Sugar Refining Company79 (1916) Holmes none none E.D. La. affirmed Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Wall87 (1916) VanDevanter none McReynolds Mont. reversed Gidney v. Chappel99 (1916) VanDevanter none none Okla. affirmed Lámar v. United States103 (1916) White none none 2d Cir. affirmed United States v. Archer119 (1916) McKenna none Pitney Ct. Cl. reversed White v. United States149 (1916) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. reversed De la Rama v. De la Rama154 (1916) Holmes none none Phil. affirmed Johnson v. Root Manufacturing Company160 (1916) Holmes none none 7th Cir. affirmed The Raithmoor166 (1916) Hughes none none E.D. Pa. reversed Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Harrington177 (1916) Hughes none none Mo. Ct. App. affirmed Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Jones181 (1916) McReynolds none none La. reversed Maryland Dredging and Contracting Company v. United States184 (1916) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Georgia Florida and Alabama Railroad Company v. Blish Milling Company190 (1916) Hughes none none Ga. Ct. App. affirmed Stowe v. Harvey199 (1916) McReynolds none none 9th Cir. affirmed Lane v. United States ex rel. Mickadiet201 (1916) White none none D.C. Cir. reversed Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company v. Bombolis211 (1916) White none none Minn. affirmed St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company v. Brown223 (1916) White none none Okla. affirmed Jacobs v. Southern Railroad Company229 (1916) McKenna none none Va. affirmed Baugham v. New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company237 (1916) McKenna none none Va. affirmed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Carnahan241 (1916) McKenna none none Va. affirmed Pacific Mail Steamship Company v. Schmidt245 (1916) Holmes none none 9th Cir. reversed Terminal Taxicab Company, Inc. v. Kutz252 (1916) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed American Well Works Company v. Layne and Bowler Company257 (1916) Holmes none none E.D. Ark. reversed Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Stewart261 (1916) Holmes none none Ky. affirmed United States v. Coca Cola Company of Atlanta265 (1916) Hughes none none 6th Cir. reversed Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company v. Renn290 (1916) VanDevanter none none N.C. affirmed Bankers Trust Company v. Texas and Pacific Railroad Company295 (1916) VanDevanter none none N.D. Tex. affirmed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. De Atley310 (1916) Pitney none none Ky. reversed Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Rankin319 (1916) McReynolds none none Tenn. reversed Wisconsin v. Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company329 (1916) McReynolds none none W.D. Wis. affirmed Southern Railroad Company v. Gray333 (1916) McReynolds none none N.C. reversed Brazee v. Michigan340 (1916) McReynolds none none Mich. affirmed Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad Company v. United States344 (1916) White none none 9th Cir. affirmed Cubbins v. Mississippi River Commission351 (1916) White none none N.D. Miss. affirmed Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Harold371 (1916) White none none Kan. reversed United States v. Hemmer379 (1916) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed Merrill-Ruckgaber Company v. United States387 (1916) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States v. Jin Fuey Moy394 (1916) Holmes none none W.D. Pa. affirmed Russo-Chinese Bank v. National Bank of Commerce of Seattle403 (1916) Hughes none none 9th Cir. affirmed St. Louis and Kansas City Land Company v. City of Kansas City419 (1916) Hughes none none Mo. affirmed Levindale Lead and Zinc Mining Company v. Coleman432 (1916) Hughes none none Okla. reversed Pacific Live Stock Company v. Lewis440 (1916) VanDevanter none none D. Or. affirmed Montelibano y Ramos v. La Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas455 (1916) Pitney none none Phil. affirmed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Proffitt462 (1916) Pitney none none 4th Cir. affirmed Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company v. Bower470 (1916) Pitney none none Neb. affirmed San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway Company v. Wagner476 (1916) Pitney none none Tex. Civ. App. affirmed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Kelly485 (1916) Pitney none none Ky. reversed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Gainey494 (1916) Pitney none none Ky. reversed Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad Company v. Campbell497 (1916) Pitney none none 9th Cir. affirmed Bingham v. Bradley511 (1916) Pitney none none N.D. Ill. affirmed New York Life Insurance Company v. Dunlevy518 (1916) McReynolds none none 9th Cir. affirmed Duel v. Hollins523 (1916) McReynolds none Pitney 2d Cir. reversed Virginia v. West Virginia531 (1916) White none none original writ of execution denied Missouri v. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company533 (1916) White none none original procedural motion granted Reid v. Fargo544 (1916) White none none 2d Cir. reversed Lancaster v. Kathleen Oil Company551 (1916) White none none E.D. Okla. reversed New York ex rel. Kennedy v. Becker556 (1916) White none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Ohio ex rel. Davis v. Hildebrant565 (1916) White none none] Ohio affirmed Brown v. Pacific Coast Coal Company571 (1916) Holmes none none 9th Cir. reversed Knights of Pythias v. Mims574 (1916) Holmes none none Tex. Civ. App. reversed Southern Surety Company v. Oklahoma582 (1916) VanDevanter none none Oklahoma affirmed Dayton v. Stanard588 (1916) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. affirmed United States v. Nice591 (1916) VanDevanter none none D.S.D. reversed United States v. Quiver602 (1916) VanDevanter none none D.S.D. affirmed Abbott v. Brown606 (1916) Pitney none none S.D. Fla. reversed Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Hilton-Green613 (1916) McReynolds none none 5th Cir. reversed Holmes v. Conway624 (1916) McReynolds none none Kan. affirmed

Notes and references

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