List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 207

This is a list of cases reported in volume 207 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1907 and 1908.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 207 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 207 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) 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) William Henry Moody Associate Justice Massachusetts Henry Billings Brown (Acclamation) –November 20, 1910(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 207 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Lawson v. United States M. Co.1 (1907) Brewer none none 8th Cir. affirmed Raymond v. Chicago U.T. Co. 20 (1907) Peckham none Holmes C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Raymond v. Chicago E. Co.42 (1907) Peckham none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Tilt v. Kelsey43 (1907) Moody none none N.Y. Cnty. Sur. Ct. reversed Ex parte First Nat'l Bank 61 (1907) Holmes none none 7th Cir. reversed Lee v. New Jersey 67 (1907) Day none none N.J. affirmed Seaboard et al. R.R. Co. v. Seegers 73 (1907) Brewer none none S.C. affirmed Interstate C.R.R. Co. v. Massachusetts79 (1907) Holmes none none Mass. Super. Ct. affirmed Chapman v. Bowen89 (1907) Fuller none none 7th Cir. dismissed Leathe v. Thomas93 (1907) Holmes none none Ill. dismissed Illinois ex rel. McNichols v. Pease 100 (1907) Harlan none none Ill. affirmed Kent v. Porto Rico 113 (1907) White none none P.R. dismissed Taylor v. United States120 (1907) Holmes none none 2d Cir. multiple Central et al. R.R. Co. v. Wright 127 (1907) Day none none Ga. reversed Chambers v. Baltimore & O.R.R. Co.142 (1907) Moody Holmes Harlan Ohio affirmed Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh161 (1907) Moody none none Pa. affirmed Webster C. & C. Co. v. Cassatt181 (1907) Fuller none none 3d Cir. reversed Pennsylvania C. & C. Co. v. Cassatt187 (1907) Fuller none none 3d Cir. reversed Shoener v. Pennsylvania188 (1907) Harlan none none Pa. dismissed Cortelyou v. Johnson & Co. 196 (1907) Brewer none none 2d Cir. affirmed Vail v. Arizona 201 (1907) Brewer none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed Bitterman v. Louisville & N.R.R. Co.205 (1907) White none none 5th Cir. affirmed United States v. R.P. Andrews & Co.229 (1907) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Earle v. Myers244 (1907) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. reversed Ozan L. Co. v. Union Cnty. Nat'l Bank251 (1907) Peckham none none 8th Cir. reversed Bank of Ky. v. Kentucky 258 (1907) McKenna none none Ky. affirmed Arkansas S.R.R. Co. v. German Nat'l Bank 270 (1907) Holmes none none Ark. dismissed Patch v. Wabash R.R. Co.277 (1907) Holmes none none C.C.S.D. Ill. reversed American T. Co. v. Werckmeister284 (1907) Day none none 2d Cir. affirmed Chunn v. City & S.R.R. Co.302 (1907) Moody none none D.C. Cir. reversed Polk v. Mutual R.F.L. Ass'n310 (1907) Moody none none 2d Cir. certification Atlantic et al. R.R. Co. v. Wharton 328 (1907) Peckham none none S.C. reversed Heath & Milligan Mfg. Co. v. Worst338 (1907) McKenna none none C.C.D.N.D. affirmed Vandalia R.R. Co. v. Indiana ex rel. City of South Bend 359 (1907) Brewer none none Ind. dismissed Paraiso v. United States 368 (1907) Holmes none none Phil. dismissed Flemister v. United States 372 (1907) Holmes none none Phil. affirmed Werckmeister v. American T. Co.375 (1907) Day none none 2d Cir. affirmed Water, L. & G. Co. v. City of Hutchinson385 (1907) McKenna none none C.C.D. Kan. affirmed The Hamilton398 (1907) Holmes none none 2d Cir. affirmed Holt v. Murphy407 (1908) Brewer none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed Sullivan v. Texas416 (1908) Brewer none none Tex. Civ. App. affirmed Williamson v. United States425 (1908) White none none C.C.D. Or. reversed The Employers' Liability Cases 463 (1908) White Peckham Moody; Harlan; Holmes multiple affirmed Consolidated R. Co. v. Vermont541 (1908) Peckham none none Vt. affirmed Anheuser-Busch B. Ass'n v. United States556 (1908) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Winters v. United States 564 (1908) McKenna none none 9th Cir. affirmed

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