This is a list of cases reported in volume 227 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1913.
Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 227 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 227 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) Horace Harmon Lurton Associate Justice Tennessee Rufus W. Peckham (Acclamation) –July 12, 1914(Died) 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)
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 "C.C.D." = United States Circuit Court for the District of . . . e.g.,"C.C.D.N.J." = United States Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey "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.,"C.C.S.D.N.Y." = United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York 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 227 U.S.
Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Yazoo & M.V.R.R. Co. v. Greenwood G. Co. 1 (1913) White none none Miss. reversed Wynkoop et al. Co. v. Gaines 4 (1913) White none none 2d Cir. dismissed Virtue v. Creamery et al. Co. 8 (1913) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed Cameron et al. Co. v. Knoxville 39 (1913) McKenna none none C.C.S.D. Iowa affirmed Gray v. Taylor 51 (1913) Holmes none none N.M. affirmed Michigan C.R.R. Co. v. Vreeland 59 (1913) Lurton none none C.C.N.D. Ohio reversed Grant v. United States 74 (1913) Hughes none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed Davis v. Las O. Co. 80 (1913) Lurton none none D.C. Cir. affirmed ICC v. Louisville & N.R.R. Co. 88 (1913) Lamar none none Comm. Ct. reversed Guardian A. Co. v. Quintana 100 (1913) White none none D.P.R. multiple De Bary & Co. v. Louisiana 108 (1913) White none none La. affirmed Texas et al. R.R. Co. v. Sabine T. Co. 111 (1913) McKenna none none Tex. Civ. App. reversed Heike v. United States 131 (1913) Holmes none none 2d Cir. affirmed American R.R. Co. v. Didricksen145 (1913) Lurton none none D.P.R. reversed Ross v. Oregon 150 (1913) VanDevanter none none Or. dismissed United States v. Harvey S. Co. 165 (1913) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Robinson v. Lundrigan 173 (1913) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed Guttierrez v. Graham 181 (1913) Holmes none none D.P.R. affirmed Chicago et al. R.R. Co. v. Schwyhart 184 (1913) Holmes none none Mo. App. affirmed Brooklyn et al. Co. v. Miller 194 (1913) Holmes none none Ariz. affirmed United States v. Winslow 202 (1913) Holmes none none D. Mass. affirmed St. Louis S.R.R. Co. v. Alexander 218 (1913) Day none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed Scott v. Lattig 229 (1913) VanDevanter none none Idaho reversed Johnson v. Hoy 245 (1913) Lamar none none N.D. Ill. dismissed New York et al. R.R. Co. v. Hudson Cnty. 248 (1913) White none none N.J. Sup. Ct. reversed St. Louis et al. R.R. Co. v. Edwards 265 (1913) White none none Ark. reversed Porto Rico (sic) v. Rosaly y C. 270 (1913) White none none P.R. reversed Home T. & T. Co. v. City of Los Angeles 278 (1913) White none none S.D. Cal. reversed Winfree v. Northern P.R.R. Co. 296 (1913) McKenna none none 9th Cir. affirmed Hutchinson v. Valdosta 303 (1913) McKenna none none C.C.S.D. Ga. affirmed Hoke v. United States 308 (1913) McKenna none none E.D. Tex. affirmed Athanasaw v. United States 326 (1913) McKenna none none S.D. Fla. affirmed Bennett v. United States 333 (1913) McKenna none none 6th Cir. affirmed Harris v. United States 340 (1913) McKenna none none 6th Cir. affirmed Stuart v. Union P.R.R. Co. 342 (1913) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed Northern P.R.R. Co. v. United States 355 (1913) McKenna none none 9th Cir. affirmed Wadkins v. Producers O. Co. 368 (1913) McKenna none none La. affirmed Cordova v. Folgueras y R. 375 (1913) Holmes none none multiple affirmed Luke v. Smith 379 (1913) Holmes none none Ariz. affirmed Porto Rico (sic) v. Title et al. Co. 382 (1913) Holmes none none 3d Cir. affirmed Crenshaw v. Arkansas 389 (1913) Day none none Ark. reversed Rogers v. Arkansas 401 (1913) Day none none Ark. reversed James v. Stone & Co. 410 (1913) Day none none 4th Cir. dismissed Lovell v. Newman & Son 412 (1913) Day none none 5th Cir. dismissed Bartell v. United States 427 (1913) Day none none D.S.D. affirmed Troxell v. Delaware et al. R.R. Co. 434 (1913) Day none none 3d Cir. reversed United States ex rel. Champion L. Co. v. Fisher 445 (1913) Day none none D.C. Cir. dismissed United States ex rel. Foreman v. Meyer 452 (1913) Day none none D.C. Cir. dismissed Hampton v. St. Louis et al. R.R. Co. 456 (1913) Lurton none none C.C.E.D. Ark. reversed Wells Fargo & Co. v. Neiman-Marcus Co. 469 (1913) Lurton none none Tex. Civ. App. reversed Bradley v. Richmond 477 (1913) Lurton none none Va. affirmed United States v. Mason 486 (1913) Lurton none none Ct. Cl. reversed Zimmerman v. Harding 489 (1913) Lurton none none D.P.R. affirmed Fraternal Mystic Cir. v. Snyder 497 (1913) Hughes none none Tenn. affirmed Bacon v. Illinois 504 (1913) Hughes none none Ill. affirmed Smoot v. Heyl 518 (1913) Hughes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Svor v. Morris 524 (1913) VanDevanter none none Minn. reversed Ross v. Stewart 530 (1913) VanDevanter none none Okla. affirmed Matheson v. United States 540 (1913) Lamar none none D. Alaska affirmed Grand Trunk W.R.R. Co. v. City of South Bend 544 (1913) Lamar none none Ind. reversed Southern P. Co. v. City of Portland 559 (1913) Lamar none none C.C.D. Or. affirmed Van Iderstine v. National D. Co. 575 (1913) Lamar none none 2d Cir. affirmed Rosaly v. Graham y F. 584 (1913) Pitney none none P.R. affirmed Ensign v. Pennsylvania 592 (1913) Pitney none none Pa. affirmed Southern P. Co. v. Schuyler 601 (1913) Pitney none none Utah affirmed Starr v. Long Jim 613 (1913) Pitney none none Wash. affirmed Zavelo v. Reeves 625 (1913) Pitney none none Ala. affirmed Marrone v. Washington Jockey Club 633 (1913) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Baxter v. Buchholz et al. Co. 637 (1913) Holmes none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed Kansas City S.R.R. Co. v. Carl 639 (1913) Lurton none none Ark. reversed Missouri et al. R.R. Co. v. Harriman 657 (1913) Lurton none none Tex. Civ. App. reversed
Notes and references
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