List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 219

This is a list of cases reported in volume 219 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1910 and 1911.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 219 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 219 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 Edward Douglass White Chief Justice Louisiana Melville Fuller (Acclamation) –May 19, 1921(Died) John Marshall Harlan Associate Justice Kentucky David Davis (Acclamation) –October 14, 1911(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) Horace Harmon Lurton Associate Justice Tennessee Rufus W. Peckham (Acclamation) –July 12, 1914(Died) Charles Evans Hughes Associate Justice New York David Josiah Brewer (Acclamation) –June 10, 1916(Resigned) Willis Van Devanter Associate Justice Wyoming Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) (Acclamation) –June 2, 1937(Retired) Joseph Rucker Lamar Associate Justice Georgia William Henry Moody (Acclamation) –January 2, 1916(Died)

Notable Case in 219 U.S. Bailey v. Alabama In Bailey v. Alabama, 219 U.S. 219 (1911), the Supreme Court struck down the peonage laws of Alabama. The Court held that holding a person criminally liable for accepting money for work not ultimately performed was akin to indentured servitude, outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment, as it required that person to work rather than be found guilty of a crime.

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 219 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition United States v. Press P. Co. 1 (1911) White none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Atlantic et al. Co. v. Philippines 17 (1910) Holmes none none Phil. affirmed Title et al. Co. v. Crane Co. 24 (1910) Holmes none none 9th Cir. affirmed Mobile et al. R.R. Co. v. Turnipseed 35 (1910) Lurton none none Miss. affirmed Herencia v. Guzman 44 (1910) Hughes none none D.P.R. affirmed American L. Co. v. Zeiss 47 (1911) White none none 9th Cir. certification United States v. Barber 72 (1911) White none none D. Idaho reversed Hendrix v. United States 79 (1911) McKenna none none E.D. Tex. affirmed West et al. R.R. Co. v. Pittsburgh C. Co. 92 (1911) McKenna none none Pa. affirmed Noble S. Bank v. Haskell I 104 (1911) Holmes none none Okla. affirmed Schallenberger v. First S. Bank 114 (1911) Holmes none none C.C.D. Neb. reversed Assaria S. Bank v. Dolley 121 (1911) Holmes none none C.C.D. Kan. affirmed Engel v. O'Malley 128 (1911) Holmes none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Kentucky U. Co. v. Kentucky 140 (1911) Day none none Ky. affirmed Spokane et al. R.R. Co. v. Washington et al. R.R. Co. 166 (1911) Day none none Wash. affirmed Fore R.S. Co. v. Hagg 175 (1911) Day none none C.C.D. Mass. dismissed United States v. Grizzard 180 (1911) Lurton none none C.C.E.D. Ky. affirmed Atlantic C.L.R.R. Co. v. Riverside M. 186 (1911) Lurton none none C.C.S.D. Ga. affirmed Louisville & N.R.R. Co. v. Scott 209 (1911) Lurton none none Ky. affirmed In re Gregory210 (1911) Hughes none none D.C. Cir. habeas corpus denied Bailey v. Alabama 219 (1911) Hughes none Holmes Ala. reversed United States v. Chamberlin 250 (1911) Hughes none none 8th Cir. reversed House v. Mayes 270 (1911) Harlan none none Mo. affirmed Brodnax v. Missouri 285 (1911) Harlan none none Mo. affirmed Reaves v. Ainsworth 296 (1911) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed German A. Ins. Co. v. Hale 307 (1911) Harlan none none C.C.S.D. Ala. affirmed W.W. Bierce, Ltd. v. Waterhouse320 (1911) Lurton none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. reversed Sexton v. Dreyfus 339 (1911) Holmes none none 2d Cir. reversed Muskrat v. United States 346 (1911) Day none none Ct. Cl. reversed Ex parte Harding 363 (1911) White none none C.C.N.D. Ill. mandamus denied Weyerhaeuser v. Hoyt 380 (1911) White none Harlan 8th Cir. reversed Campbell v. Weyerhaeuser 424 (1911) White none none 8th Cir. affirmed Northern P.R.R. Co. v. Wass 426 (1911) White none Harlan Minn. reversed Southern P. Co. v. ICC 433 (1911) White none none C.C.N.D. Cal. reversed Chicago et al. R.R. Co. v. Arkansas 453 (1911) Harlan none none Ark. affirmed Louisville & N.R.R. Co. v. Mottley 467 (1911) Harlan none none Ky. reversed Chicago et al. R.R. Co. v. United States 486 (1911) Harlan none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Southern P.T. Co. v. ICC 498 (1911) McKenna none none C.C.S.D. Tex. affirmed Merrimack R.S. Bank v. City of Clay Center 527 (1911) Lurton none none C.C.D. Kan. contempt discharged Roughton v. Knight 537 (1911) Lurton none none Cal. affirmed Chicago et al. R.R. Co. v. McGuire 549 (1911) Hughes none none Iowa affirmed Noble S. Bank v. Haskell II 575 (1911) Holmes none none Okla. rehearing denied Buck's et al. Co. v. AFL 581 (1911) per curiam none none D.C. Cir. dismissed

Notes and references

List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 219

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