This is a list of cases reported in volume 174 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1899.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 174 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 174 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) 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) Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field (Acclamation) –January 5, 1925(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.

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 174 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Capital Traction Company v. Hof 1 (1899) Gray none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Metropolitan Railway Company v. Church 46 (1899) Gray none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Kirby v. United States 47 (1899) Harlan none none D.S.D. reversed Cosgrove v. Winney 64 (1899) Fuller none none E.D. Mich. reversed American Refrigerator Transit Company v. Hall 70 (1899) Shiras none none Colo. affirmed Holmes v. Hurst 82 (1899) Brown none none 2d Cir. affirmed White v. Leovy 91 (1899) McKenna none none La. dismissed Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Matthews 96 (1899) Brewer none Harlan Kan. affirmed Auten v. United States National Bank 125 (1899) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed United States v. One Distillery 149 (1899) Harlan none none C.C.S.D. Cal. affirmed Moran v. Dillingham 153 (1899) Gray none none 5th Cir. decree quashed Kimball v. Kimball 158 (1899) Gray none none Kings County Sur. Ct. dismissed Nelson v. Moloney 164 (1899) Fuller none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed McCain v. City of Des Moines 168 (1899) Peckham none none C.C.S.D. Iowa affirmed Bosworth v. St. Louis et al. Ass'n 182 (1899) Brewer none none 7th Cir. affirmed Humphries v. District of Columbia 190 (1899) Brewer none none D.C. Cir. reversed Morris v. United States 196 (1899) Shiras none White Sup. Ct. D.C. affirmed Raton W. Company v. Town of Raton 360 (1899) Shiras none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. reversed Concord First National Bank v. Hawkins 364 (1899) Shiras none none 1st Cir. reversed Price v. United States 373 (1899) Brewer none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Freeman 379 (1899) Brown none none 9th Cir. reversed United States v. Krall 385 (1899) White none none 9th Cir. dismissed Israel v. Gale 391 (1899) White none none 2d Cir. affirmed McDonald v. Williams 397 (1899) Peckham none none 2d Cir. certification Stone v. Farmers' Bank 409 (1899) White none none not indicated affirmed Stone v. Bank of Commerce 412 (1899) Peckham none none C.C.D. Ky. reversed City of Louisville v. Bank of Commerce 428 (1899) Peckham none none C.C.D. Ky. reversed Fidelity Trust Safety Vault Company v. City of Louisville 429 (1899) Peckham none none C.C.D. Ky. affirmed Third National Bank v. Stone 432 (1899) White none none C.C.D. Ky. reversed City of Louisville v. Third National Bank 435 (1899) White none none C.C.D. Ky. affirmed City of Louisville v. Citizens' National Bank 436 (1899) White none none C.C.D. Ky. multiple First National Bank v. City of Louisville 438 (1899) White none none C.C.D. Ky. reversed City of Louisville v. Bank of Louisville 439 (1899) White none none C.C.D. Ky. reversed Stephens v. Cherokee Nation 445 (1899) Fuller none none U.S. Ct. Ind. Terr. affirmed Office S. Manufacturing Company v. Fenton M. Manufacturing Company 492 (1899) Brown none none D.C. Cir. reversed Wade v. Travis County 499 (1899) Brown none none 5th Cir. reversed The Olinde Rodrigues 510 (1899) Fuller none none D.S.C. affirmed Cohn v. Daley 539 (1899) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed New Mexico v. United States Trust Company 545 (1899) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. reversed Louisville et al. Railway Company v. Louisville Trust Company 552 (1899) Gray none none 6th Cir. multiple United States v. Coe 578 (1899) Fuller none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. rehearing denied Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad Company v. McCann 580 (1899) White none none Mo. affirmed West Company v. Lea 590 (1899) White none none 4th Cir. certification Columbus Construction Company v. Crane Company 600 (1899) Shiras none none C.C.N.D. Ill. dismissed Rio Grande Irrigation and Colonization Company v. Gildersleeve 603 (1899) Shiras none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed McDonald v. Chemical National Bank 610 (1899) Shiras none none 2d Cir. affirmed Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. De Lacey 622 (1899) Peckham none none 9th Cir. reversed McMullen v. Hoffman 639 (1899) Peckham none none 9th Cir. affirmed United States v. Dudley 670 (1899) Brown none none 2d Cir. affirmed Louisville Trust Company v. Louisville et al. Railway Company 674 (1899) Brewer none none 7th Cir. reversed United States v. Rio Grande Dam Irrigation Company 690 (1899) Brewer none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. reversed Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Sturm 710 (1899) McKenna none none Kan. reversed Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Campbell 718 (1899) McKenna none none Kan. reversed Davis v. Coblens 719 (1899) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Spurr v. United States 728 (1899) Fuller none none 6th Cir. reversed San Diego et al. Company v. City of National City 739 (1899) Harlan none none C.C.S.D. Cal. affirmed City of Richmond v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company 761 (1899) Harlan none none 4th Cir. affirmed Oakes v. United States 778 (1899) Gray none none Ct. Cl. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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