This is a list of cases reported in volume 220 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1911.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 220 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 220 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)

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 220 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Virginia v. West Virginia 1 (1911) Holmes none none original continued United States v. Atchison et al. R.R. Co. 37 (1911) Holmes none none 7th Cir. affirmed Hipolite Egg Co. v. United States 45 (1911) McKenna none none S.D. Ill. affirmed Lindsley v. Natural C.G. Co. 61 (1911) VanDevanter none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed In re Eastern Cherokees 83 (1911) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. mandamus denied Taylor v. Leesnitzer 90 (1911) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. reversed Baltimore & O.S.R.R. Co. v. United States 94 (1911) Lamar none none 6th Cir. affirmed Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. 107 (1911) Day none none multiple affirmed Eliot v. Freeman178 (1911) Day none none C.C.D. Mass. reversed Zonne v. Minneapolis Syndicate 187 (1911) Day none none C.C.D. Minn. reversed Ex parte Oklahoma I 191 (1911) White none none C.C.E.D. Okla. prohibition denied Ex parte Oklahoma II 210 (1911) White none none C.C.W.D. Okla. prohibition denied Martinez v. International B. Corp. 214 (1911) White none none Phil. dismissed Perez v. Fernandez 224 (1911) White none none D.P.R.. reversed Blanco v. Hubbard 233 (1911) White none none D.P.R.. reversed ICC v. Delaware et al. R.R. Co. 235 (1911) White none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed United States v. Lehigh Valley R.R. Co. 257 (1911) White none none C.C.E.D. Pa. reversed United States v. Erie R.R. Co. 275 (1911) White none none C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed Oklahoma v. Atchison et al. R.R. Co. 277 (1911) Harlan none none original dismissed Oklahoma ex rel. West v. Gulf et al. R.R. Co. 290 (1911) Harlan none none original dismissed Oklahoma ex rel. West v. Chicago et al. R.R. Co. 302 (1911) Harlan none none Okla. affirmed Enriquez v. Go-Tiongco 307 (1911) Holmes none none Phil. affirmed Arnett v. Reade 311 (1911) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. reversed United States v. O'Brien 321 (1911) Holmes none none 2d Cir. affirmed Hills & Co. v. Hoover 329 (1911) Day none none 3d Cir. certification Gavieres v. United States 338 (1911) Day none none Phil. affirmed Vilas v. City of Manila 345 (1911) Lurton none none Phil. reversed Western Union Tel. Co. v. Crovo 364 (1911) Lurton none none Va. affirmed Dr. Miles M. Co. v. Park & Sons Co. 373 (1911) Hughes none Holmes 6th Cir. affirmed Chicago et al. R.R. Co. v. Willard 413 (1911) Harlan none none 7th Cir. affirmed Diamond Rubber Co. v. Consolidated R.T. Co. 428 (1911) McKenna none none 2d Cir. affirmed - style="background: white" colspan=7 An inventor is not obliged to know the scientific theory underlying their invention; they can be a pure empiricist. Standard Paint Co. v. Trinidad A. Mfg. Co. 446 (1911) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed Shawnee S. & D. Co. v. Stearns 462 (1911) McKenna none none C.C.W.D. Okla. reversed J.W. Perry Co. v. City of Norfolk 472 (1911) Lamar none none Va. affirmed Sac & Fox v. Sac & Fox 481 (1911) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Ripley v. United States 491 (1911) White none none Ct. Cl. remanded Sena v. American Turquoise Co. 497 (1911) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Sperry & H. Co. v. Rhodes 502 (1911) Lamar none none S.D. Cal. reversed United States v. Grimaud 506 (1911) Lamar none none S.D. Cal. reversed Light v. United States 523 (1911) Lamar none none C.C.D. Colo. affirmed Ex parte Metropolitan Water Co. 539 (1911) White none none C.C.D. Kan. mandamus granted United States v. Rimer 547 (1911) White none none 4th Cir. dismissed Wise v. Mills 549 (1911) White none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. dismissed Wise v. Henkel 556 (1911) White none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. dismissed Chicago et al. R.R. Co. v. United States 559 (1911) Harlan none none 8th Cir. affirmed Delk v. St. Louis et al. R.R. Co. 580 (1911) Harlan none none 6th Cir. reversed Schlemmer v. Buffalo et al. R.R. Co. 590 (1911) Day none none Pa. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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