This is a list of cases reported in volume 181 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1901.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 181 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 181 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 181 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission 1 (1901) White none none 6th Cir. reversed Interstate Commerce Commission v. Clyde Steamship Company 29 (1901) White none none 5th Cir. affirmed Lombard v. West Chicago Park Commissioners 33 (1901) White none none Ill. affirmed Daingerfield National Bank v. Ragland 45 (1901) White none none Tex. Civ. App. affirmed East Building and Loan Association v. Welling 47 (1901) White none none S.C. dismissed Knights of Pythias v. Beck 49 (1901) Brewer none none 9th Cir. affirmed Texas Pacific Railroad Company v. Humble 57 (1901) Fuller none none 8th Cir. affirmed Browne v. Chavez 68 (1901) Fuller none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. multiple John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Warren 73 (1901) Fuller none none Ohio affirmed Whitney v. Hay 77 (1901) Harlan none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Western Union Telegraph Company v. Call Publishing Company 92 (1901) Brewer none none Neb. affirmed Whitney v. United States 104 (1901) Peckham none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. affirmed Baker v. Cummings 117 (1901) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. reversed Werling v. Ingersoll 131 (1901) Peckham none none Ill. affirmed St. Paul Gas Light Company v. City of St. Paul 142 (1901) White none none Minn. dismissed Codlin v. Kohlhausen 151 (1901) Fuller none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. dismissed City of New Orleans v. Emsheimer 153 (1901) Fuller none none C.C.E.D. La. dismissed Atherton v. Atherton 155 (1901) Gray none Peckham N.Y. Sup. Ct. reversed Bell v. Bell 175 (1901) Gray none Peckham N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed nunc pro tunc Streitwolf v. Streitwolf 179 (1901) Gray none none N.J. affirmed Lynde v. Lynde 183 (1901) Gray none Peckham N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Bryan v. Bernheimer 188 (1901) Gray none none 5th Cir. reversed Rasmussen v. Idaho 198 (1901) Brewer none none Idaho affirmed Scott v. Deweese 202 (1901) Harlan none none 8th Cir. affirmed International Navigation Company v. Farr Bailey Manufacturing Company 218 (1901) Fuller none none 3d Cir. affirmed Bedford v. Eastern Building and Loan Association 227 (1901) McKenna none none 6th Cir. affirmed Wall v. Cox 244 (1901) Gray none none 4th Cir. certification Smith v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company 248 (1901) McKenna none Harlan; Brown Tex. Civ. App. affirmed Treat v. White 264 (1901) Brewer none none 2d Cir. certification Speed v. McCarthy 269 (1901) Fuller none none S.D. Cir. dismissed American Sugar Refining Company v. City of New Orleans 277 (1901) Fuller none none 5th Cir. reversed Fairbank v. United States 283 (1901) Brewer none Harlan D. Minn. reversed French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Company 324 (1901) Shiras none Harlan Mo. affirmed Wight v. Davidson 371 (1901) Shiras none Harlan D.C. Cir. reversed Town of Tonawanda v. Lyon 389 (1901) Shiras none Harlan C.C.N.D.N.Y. reversed Webster v. City of Fargo 394 (1901) Shiras none Harlan N.D. affirmed Cass Farm Company v. City of Detroit 396 (1901) Shiras none Harlan Mich. affirmed City of Detroit v. Parker 399 (1901) Shiras none Harlan C.C.E.D. Mich. reversed Shumate v. Heman 402 (1901) Shiras none Harlan Mo. affirmed Farrell v. West Chicago Park Commissioners 404 (1901) Shiras none Harlan Ill. affirmed German National Bank v. Speckert 405 (1901) Gray none none 6th Cir. dismissed Put-in-Bay Waterworks Railway Company v. Ryan 409 (1901) Shiras none none C.C.N.D. Ohio certification United States Rubber Company v. American Oak Leather Company 434 (1901) Shiras none none 7th Cir. reversed District of Columbia v. Camden Iron Works 453 (1901) Fuller none none D.C. Cir. affirmed The Barnstable 464 (1901) Brown none none 1st Cir. reversed Hale v. Lewis 473 (1901) Brown none none Wis. dismissed Barker v. Harvey 481 (1901) Brewer none none Cal. affirmed United States v. Edmonston 500 (1901) Brewer none none Ct. Cl. reversed Lockhart v. Johnson 516 (1901) Peckham none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Wells v. City of Savannah 531 (1901) Peckham none none Ga. affirmed Red River Valley National Bank v. Craig 548 (1901) Peckham none none N.D. affirmed Armijo v. Armijo 558 (1901) Peckham none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Marks v. Shoup 562 (1901) McKenna none none D. Alaska reversed Luhrs v. Hancock 567 (1901) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed Audubon v. Shufeldt 575 (1901) Gray none none Sup. Ct. D.C. reversed Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Adams 580 (1901) Brown none none Miss. rehearing denied Schlitz Brewing Company v. United States 584 (1901) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Mallett v. North Carolina 589 (1901) Shiras none none N.C. affirmed Colburn v. Grant 601 (1901) Shiras none none D.C. Cir. affirmed American Sugar Refining Company v. United States 610 (1901) McKenna none none 2d Cir. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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