This is a list of cases reported in volume 216 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1910.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 216 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 216 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) 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 216 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Western Union Telegraph Company v. Kansas ex rel. Coleman 1 (1910) Harlan White Holmes Kan. reversed Pullman Company v. Kansas ex rel. Coleman 56 (1910) Harlan White Holmes Kan. reversed Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company v. J. Slade and E.M. Pless 78 (1910) White none none Ga. Ct. App. dismissed Conley v. Ballinger 84 (1910) Holmes none none C.C.D. Kan. reversed King v. West Virginia 92 (1910) Holmes none none W. Va. dismissed Babbitt v. Dutcher 102 (1910) Fuller none none S.D.N.Y. reversed In re Elkus 115 (1910) Fuller none none 2d Cir. certification Woodside v. Beckham 117 (1910) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Iowa affirmed Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Mazursky 122 (1910) Fuller none none S.C. affirmed Zartman v. First National Bank of Waterloo 134 (1910) Fuller none none Sup. Ct. N.Y. affirmed Childers v. McClaughry 139 (1910) Fuller none none D. Kan. dismissed Ludwig v. Western Union Telegraph Company 146 (1910) Harlan none none C.C.E.D. Ark. affirmed Western Union Telegraph Company v. Andrews 165 (1910) Day none none C.C.E.D. Ark. reversed Alvarez y Sanchez v. United States 167 (1910) Harlan none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Monongahela Bridge Company v. United States 177 (1910) Harlan none none W.D. Pa. affirmed Citizens' Central National Bank of New York v. Appleton 196 (1910) Harlan none none Sup. Ct. N.Y. affirmed Great Northern Railroad Company v. Minnesota 206 (1910) Harlan none none Minn. affirmed Chicago Great Western Railway Company v. Minnesota 234 (1910) Harlan none none Minn. affirmed Ballinger v. United States ex rel. Frost 240 (1910) Brewer none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Central Trust Company v. Central Trust Company of Illinois251 (1910) Brewer none none 7th Cir. affirmed Missouri Pacific Railway Company v. Kansas ex rel. State Board of Railroad Commissioners 262 (1910) White none none Kan. affirmed Hannis Distilling Company v. City of Baltimore 285 (1910) White none none C.C.D. Md. dismissed Fraenkl v. Cerecedo Hermanos 295 (1910) White none none D.P.R. affirmed Pendleton v. United States 305 (1910) McKenna none none Phil. affirmed Penman v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company 311 (1910) McKenna none none 3d Cir. affirmed Blake v. Openhym 322 (1910) McKenna none none 8th Cir. dismissed Albright v. Sandoval I 331 (1910) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Albright v. Sandoval II 342 (1910) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. dismissed W.J. Moxley Corp. v. Hertz 344 (1910) McKenna none none 7th Cir. certification Laurel Hill Cemetery v. City and County of San Francisco 358 (1910) Holmes none none Cal. affirmed Hawaiian Trust Company, Ltd. v. Von Holt 367 (1910) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. affirmed United States v. Plowman 372 (1910) Holmes none none 9th Cir. reversed Saxlehner v. Wagner 375 (1910) Holmes none none 6th Cir. affirmed Harris v. First National Bank of Mt. Pleasant 382 (1910) Day none none E.D. Tex. affirmed Olmsted v. Olmsted 386 (1910) Day none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Forbes v. State Council of Virginia, Junior Order of United American Mechanics of Virginia 396 (1910) Day none none Va. dismissed Southern Railroad Company v. Greene 400 (1910) Day none none Ala. reversed Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Gaston 418 (1910) Day none none Ala. reversed Wright v. Georgia Railroad and Banking Company 420 (1910) Lurton none none C.C.N.D. Ga. affirmed Toxaway Hotel Company v. Smathers and Company 439 (1910) Lurton none none 4th Cir. certification Friday v. Hall and Kaul Company 449 (1910) Lurton none none 3d Cir. reversed Pickett v. United States 456 (1910) Lurton none none C.C.W.D. Okla. affirmed Haas v. Henkel 462 (1910) Lurton Brewer none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Peckham v. Henkel 483 (1910) Lurton Brewer none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Price v. Henkel 488 (1910) Lurton Brewer none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company v. United States 494 (1910) Brewer none none Ct. Cl. reversed J.J. McCaskill Company v. United States 504 (1910) McKenna none none 5th Cir. affirmed Parish of Orleans v. New York Life Insurance Company 517 (1910) Holmes none none C.C.E.D. La. affirmed Starkweather v. Jenner 524 (1910) Lurton none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Interstate Commerce Commission v. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company 531 (1910) Holmes none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Interstate Commerce Commission v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company 538 (1910) Holmes none none C.C.D. Minn. affirmed Knapp v. Milwaukee Trust Company 545 (1910) Day none none 7h Cir. affirmed Franklin v. United States 559 (1910) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. dismissed Osborn v. Froyseth 571 (1910) Lurton none none Minn. affirmed Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. North Dakota ex rel. McCue 579 (1910) Holmes none none N.D. affirmed Williams v. First National Bank of Pauls Valley 582 (1910) White none none Okla. affirmed Garcia Maytin v. Vela 598 (1910) Holmes none none P.R. multiple Weir v. Rountree 607 (1910) per curiam none none 8th Cir. dismissed David Kaufman and Sons Company v. Smith 610 (1910) per curiam none none C.C.D.N.J. dismissed Lewis v. United States 611 (1910) per curiam none none E.D. Mo. dismissed Mallers v. Commercial Loan and Trust Company 613 (1910) per curiam none none Ill. dismissed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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