This is a list of cases reported in volume 215 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1909 and 1910.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 215 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 215 were decided the Court comprised the following members (during the period that these cases were being adjudicated, Justice Peckham died and Justice Lurton succeeded him):

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) Horace Harmon Lurton Associate Justice Tennessee Rufus W. Peckham (Acclamation) –July 12, 1914(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 215 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Fall v. Eastin 1 (1909) McKenna Holmes none Neb. affirmed Reavis v. Fianza 16 (1909) Holmes none none Phil. affirmed United States v. Mescall 26 (1909) Brewer none none C.C.E.D.N.Y. reversed Waterman v. Canal L.B. & T. Co. 33 (1909) Day none none C.C.E.D. La. reversed United States v. Union Supply Co. 50 (1909) Holmes none none D.N.J. reversed Fleming v. McCurtain 56 (1909) Holmes none none C.C.E.D. Okla. affirmed Marbles v. Creecy 63 (1909) Harlan none none C.C.E.D. Mo. affirmed McGilvra v. Ross 70 (1909) McKenna none none 9th Cir. reversed Sylvester v. Washington 80 (1909) Holmes none none Wash. affirmed El Paso & N.R.R. Co. v. Gutierrez 87 (1909) Day none none Tex. affirmed ICC v. Stickney 98 (1909) Brewer none none C.C.D. Minn. affirmed Hanover Nat'l Bank v. Suddath I 110 (1909) White none none 2d Cir. affirmed Hanover Nat'l Bank v. Suddath II 122 (1909) White none none 2d Cir. affirmed Kenney v. Craven 125 (1909) White none none Mass. Super. Ct. dismissed The S.S. Jefferson 130 (1909) White none none E.D. Va. reversed Scully v. Squier 144 (1909) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Idaho affirmed Rumford C.W. v. Hygienic C. Co. 156 (1909) Holmes none none multiple multiple Steward v. American Lava Co. 161 (1909) Holmes none none 6th Cir. affirmed Louisiana ex rel. Hubert v. City of New Orleans 170 (1909) Day none none La. reversed Caliga v. Inter Ocean Newspaper Co. 182 (1909) Day none none 7th Cir. affirmed United States v. Stevenson I 190 (1909) Day none none D. Mass. reversed United States v. Stevenson II 200 (1909) Day none none D. Mass. reversed Everett v. Everett 203 (1909) Harlan none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed Baltimore & O.R.R. Co. v. ICC 216 (1909) Fuller none none C.C.D. Md. order set aside Southern P. Co. v. ICC 226 (1909) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Cal. dismissed Yordi v. Nolte 227 (1909) Fuller none none W.D. Tex. affirmed United States v. Corbett 233 (1909) White none none W.D. Wis. reversed Lathrop, et al. Co. v. Interior C. & I. Co. 246 (1909) McKenna none none C.C.W.D.N.Y. reversed Virginia C.C. Co. v. Kirven 252 (1909) McKenna none none S.C. affirmed Snyder v. Rosenbaum 261 (1909) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed Rio Grande D. & I. Co. v. United States 266 (1909) Harlan none none Sup. Ct. Terr N.M. affirmed United States v. Celestine 278 (1909) Brewer none none C.C.W.D. Wash. reversed United States v. Sutton 291 (1909) Brewer none none E.D. Wash. reversed Santa Fé Cnty. v. New Mexico ex rel. Coler 296 (1909) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Illinois C.R.R. Co. v. Sheegog 308 (1909) Holmes none Day Ky. affirmed Graves v. Ashburn 331 (1909) Holmes none none 5th Cir. reversed Scott Cnty. M.R. Co. v. Missouri ex rel. Hines 336 (1909) Holmes none none Mo. affirmed First Nat'l Bank v. City of Estherville 341 (1910) Fuller none none Iowa dismissed Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. 349 (1910) Harlan none Holmes 4th Cir. certification Henley v. Myers 373 (1910) Harlan none none Kan. affirmed Union Pacific Railroad Co. v. Harris 386 (1910) Brewer none none Kan. affirmed Komada & Co. v. United States 392 (1910) Brewer none none 9th Cir. affirmed Elias v. Ramirez 398 (1910) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. reversed Tiglao v. Philippines 410 (1910) Holmes none none Phil. affirmed City of Minneapolis v. Minneapolis Street R.R. Co. 417 (1910) Day none none C.C.D. Minn. affirmed Mechanical A. Co. v. Castleman 437 (1910) Day none none C.C.E.D. Mo. reversed Haffner v. Dobrinski 446 (1910) Fuller none none Sup. Ct. Terr Okla. affirmed Interstate Commerce Commission v. Illinois Central Railroad Co. 452 (1910) White none none C.C.N.D. Ill. reversed Interstate Commerce Commission v. Chicago & A.R.R. Co. 479 (1910) White none none C.C.N.D. Ill. reversed Baltimore & O.R.R. Co. v. United States ex rel. P.C. Co. 481 (1910) White none none 4th Cir. reversed Macon Grocery Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. 501 (1910) White none Harlan 5th Cir. affirmed North Dakota ex rel. Flaherty v. Hanson 515 (1910) White none none N.D. reversed Brill v. Washington Railway and Electric Company527 (1910) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Mankin v. United States ex rel. Ludowici-C. Co. 533 (1910) Day none none 5th Cir. affirmed O.N. Williams Co. v. United States 541 (1910) Fuller none none 4th Cir. affirmed Wagg v. Herbert 546 (1910) Brewer none none Sup. Ct. Terr Okla. affirmed Lowrey v. Hawaii 554 (1910) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. reversed United States v. Shipp 580 (1909) Fuller none none original contempt sentences

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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