This is a list of cases reported in volume 160 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1895 and 1896.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 160 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 160 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 Melville Fuller Chief Justice Illinois Morrison Waite (41–20) –July 4, 1910(Died) Stephen Johnson Field Associate Justice California newly created seat (Acclamation)–December 1, 1897(Retired) John Marshall Harlan Associate Justice Kentucky David Davis (Acclamation) –October 14, 1911(Died) Horace Gray Associate Justice Massachusetts Nathan Clifford (51–5) –September 15, 1902(Died) David Josiah Brewer Associate Justice Kansas Stanley Matthews (53–11) –March 28, 1910(Died) Henry Billings Brown Associate Justice Michigan Samuel Freeman Miller (Acclamation) –May 28, 1906(Retired) George Shiras Jr. Associate Justice Pennsylvania Joseph P. Bradley (Acclamation) –February 23, 1903(Retired) Edward Douglass White Associate Justice Louisiana Samuel Blatchford (Acclamation) –December 18, 1910(Continued as chief justice) Rufus W. Peckham Associate Justice New York Howell Edmunds Jackson (Acclamation) –October 24, 1909(Died)

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.

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 160 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company1 (1895) Harlan none none 8th Cir. reversed United States v. Western Union Telegraph Company53 (1895) Harlan none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Goldsby v. United States70 (1895) White none none C.C.W.D. Ark. affirmed Washington and Idaho Railway v. Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation Company77 (1895) Shiras none none 9th Cir. affirmed Washington and Idaho Railway v. Osborn103 (1895) Shiras none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Idaho affirmed McCarty v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company110 (1895) Brown none none C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed Folsom v. United States121 (1895) Fuller none none 8th Cir. certification Streep v. United States128 (1895) Gray none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed United States v. Healey136 (1895) Harlan none none Ct. Cl. reversed Bamberger v. Schoolfield149 (1895) White none none C.C.N.D. Ala. affirmed New Orleans Flour Inspectors v. Glover170 (1895) Fuller none none C.C.E.D. La. dismissed Townsend v. Vanderwerker171 (1895) Brown none none Sup. Ct. D.C. reversed Ballew v. United States187 (1895) White none none C.C.N.D. Ga. reversed Allison v. United States203 (1895) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed Interior Construction and Improvement Company v. Gibney217 (1895) Gray none none C.C.D. Ind. reversed In Re Keasbey and Mattison Company221 (1895) Gray none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. mandamus denied Whitten v. Tomlinson231 (1895) Gray none none C.C.D. Conn. affirmed In re Sanford Fork and Tool Company247 (1895) Gray none none C.C.D. Ind. mandamus denied Central Railroad Company v. Keegan259 (1895) White none none 2d Cir. certification Moore v. United States268 (1895) Brown none none S.D. Ala. reversed Keane v. Brygger276 (1895) Field none none Wash. affirmed Jersey City and Bergen Railroad Company v. Morgan288 (1895) Fuller none none N.J. Sup. Ct. dismissed Kohl v. Lehlback293 (1895) Fuller none none C.C.D.N.J. affirmed Haws v. Victoria Copper Mining Company303 (1895) White none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah affirmed Markham v. United States319 (1895) Harlan none none D. Ky. affirmed Lehigh Mining and Manufacturing Company v. Kelly327 (1895) Harlan none Shiras C.C.W.D. Va. affirmed Pierce v. United States355 (1896) Brown none none C.C.W.D. Ark. affirmed Bartlett v. Lockwood357 (1896) Brown none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed Van Wagenen v. Sewall369 (1896) Brown none none N.D. Fla. dismissed Union Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Kirchoff374 (1896) Brown none none Ill. dismissed Kirby v. Tallmadge379 (1896) Brown none none Sup. Ct. D.C. affirmed Iowa Central Railway Company v. Iowa389 (1896) White none none Iowa dismissed Spalding v. Chandler394 (1896) White none none Mich. affirmed Hickory v. United States408 (1896) White none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed Gill v. United States426 (1896) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. Pool438 (1896) White none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah reversed Eldridge v. Trezevant452 (1896) Shiras none none C.C.W.D. La. affirmed Davis v. United States469 (1895) Harlan none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed United States v. Sayward493 (1895) Harlan none none C.C.D. Wash. reversed Chappell v. United States499 (1896) Gray none none D. Md. affirmed Jacksonville, Mayport, Pablo Railway and Navigation Company v. Hooper514 (1896) Shiras none none C.C.N.D. Fla. affirmed Laing v. Rigney531 (1896) Shiras none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. reversed Johnson v. United States546 (1896) Brewer none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Carver v. United States553 (1896) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Fitzgerald556 (1896) Fuller none none Neb. dismissed Dickson v. Patterson584 (1896) Harlan none none C.C.D. Neb. reversed United States v. Fuller593 (1896) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States v. New York598 (1896) Harlan none none Ct. Cl. reversed Nalle v. Young624 (1896) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. La. reversed Gregory v. Van Ee643 (1896) Fuller none none 1st Cir. dismissed Chemical National Bank v. City Bank646 (1896) Fuller none none Ill. dismissed United States v. Thornton654 (1896) Brown none none Ct. Cl. reversed First National Bank v. Ayers660 (1896) Peckham none none Kan. affirmed United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Company668 (1896) Peckham none none C.C.E.D. Pa. reversed Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company v. United States686 (1896) Harlan none none C.C.N.D. Iowa rehearing denied Missouri v. Iowa688 (1896) Fuller none none original boundary adjusted

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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