This is a list of cases reported in volume 190 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1903.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 190 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 190 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) 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) 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) 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)

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 190 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition In re Watts 1 (1903) Fuller Harlan none D. Ind. habeas corpus granted O'Neal v. United States 36 (1903) Fuller none none N.D. Fla. dismissed Tubman v. Baltimore & O.R.R. Co. 38 (1903) Fuller none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Wright v. Henkel 40 (1903) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Tennessee v. Virginia 64 (1903) Fuller none none original boundary set Montgomery v. City of Portland 89 (1903) Harlan none none Or. affirmed Wilkes Cnty. v. W.N. Coler Co. 107 (1903) Harlan none none 4th Cir. affirmed Bockfinger v. Foster 116 (1903) Harlan none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed James v. Bowman 127 (1903) Brewer none none W.D. Ky. affirmed Swan & Finch Co. v. United States 143 (1903) Brewer none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Mutual R.F.L. Ass'n v. Phelps 147 (1903) Brewer none none 6th Cir. affirmed Atlantic & P. Tel. Co. v. City of Philadelphia 160 (1903) Brewer none none C.C.E.D. Pa. reversed Patterson v. Bark Eudora 169 (1903) Brewer none none 3d Cir. certification Johanson v. Washington 179 (1903) Brewer none none Wash. affirmed Oregon & C.R.R. Co. v. United States 186 (1903) Brown none none 9th Cir. reversed Hawaii v. Mankichi 197 (1903) Brown White Fuller, Harlan D. Haw. reversed Snyder v. Bettman 249 (1903) Brown none White C.C.S.D. Ohio affirmed Mifflin v. R.H. White Co. 260 (1903) Brown none none 1st Cir. affirmed Mifflin v. Dutton 265 (1903) Brown none none 1st Cir. affirmed Northern P. Ry. Co. v. Townsend 267 (1903) White none none Minn. reversed ICC v. Louisville & N.R.R. Co. 273 (1903) White none none 5th Cir. affirmed Texas P. Ry. Co. v. Watson 287 (1903) White none none 5th Cir. affirmed Lockwood v. Exchange Bank 294 (1903) White none none 5th Cir. reversed Cosmos Explor. Co. v. Gray Eagle O. Co. 301 (1903) Peckham none none 9th Cir. affirmed United States ex rel. Riverside O. Co. v. Hitchcock 316 (1903) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Southern Ry. Co. v. Allison 326 (1903) Peckham none none N.C. reversed Dunbar v. Dunbar 340 (1903) Peckham none none Mass. Super. Ct. affirmed Buchanan v. Patterson 353 (1903) Peckham none none Md. affirmed Blackfeather v. United States 368 (1903) Peckham none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States v. Michigan 379 (1903) Peckham none none original demurrer overruled Conley v. Mathieson Alkali Works 406 (1903) McKenna none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Western Union Tel. Co. v. Missouri ex rel. Gottlieb 412 (1903) McKenna none none Mo. affirmed Geer v. Mathieson Alkali Works 428 (1903) McKenna none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Stanly Cnty. v. W.N. Coler Co. 437 (1903) McKenna none none 4th Cir. affirmed Kean v. Calumet C. & I. Co. 452 (1903) Holmes none White Ind. affirmed Hardin v. Shedd 508 (1903) Holmes none White Ill. affirmed Colombia v. Cauca Co. 524 (1903) Holmes none none 4th Cir. reversed Randolph v. Scruggs 533 (1903) Holmes none none 6th Cir. certification Globe R. Co. v. Landa C.O. Co. 540 (1903) Holmes none none C.C.W.D. Tex. affirmed Queenan v. Oklahoma 548 (1903) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed Hutchinson v. Otis 552 (1903) Holmes none none 1st Cir. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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