This is a list of cases reported in volume 233 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1914.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 233 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 233 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) 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) Mahlon Pitney Associate Justice New Jersey John Marshall Harlan (50–26) –December 31, 1922(Resigned)

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.

On January 1, 1912, the effective date of the Judicial Code of 1911, the old Circuit Courts were abolished, with their remaining trial court jurisdiction transferred to the U.S. District Courts.

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 233 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Miller v. United States 1 (1914) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Browning v. Waycross 16 (1914) White none none Ga. Ct. App. affirmed De Bearn v. Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore 24 (1914) White none none D. Md. dismissed Metzger Motor Car Company v. Parrott 36 (1914) White none none E.D. Mich. reversed Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company v. Lindsay 42 (1914) White none none 7th Cir. affirmed Carlesi v. New York 51 (1914) White none none N.Y. Ct. Gen. Sess. affirmed Archer v. Greenville Sand and Gravel Company 60 (1914) McKenna none none 5th Cir. reversed Herbert v. Bicknell 70 (1914) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. affirmed Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Kaw Valley Drainage District 75 (1914) Holmes none none Kan. reversed Southern Railway v. Bennett 80 (1914) Holmes none none S.C. affirmed Arizona ex rel. Gaines v. Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company 87 (1914) Day none none Ariz. affirmed Boston and Maine Railroad Company v. Hooker 97 (1914) Day none Pitney Mass. Super. Ct. reversed United States ex rel. Texas Portland Cement Company v. McCord 157 (1914) Day none none 3d Cir. certification Hollerbach v. United States 165 (1914) Day none none Ct. Cl. reversed Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Robinson 173 (1914) Day none none Okla. reversed Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Moore 182 (1914) Day none none Okla. reversed Myers v. Pittsburgh Coal Company 184 (1914) Day none none 3d Cir. reversed Russell v. Sebastian 195 (1914) Hughes none none Cal. reversed Union Lime Company v. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company 211 (1914) Hughes none none Wis. affirmed United States v. Birdsall 223 (1914) Hughes none none N.D. Iowa reversed Diamond Coal and Coke Company v. United States 236 (1914) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. affirmed El Paso Brick Company v. McKnight 250 (1914) Lamar none none N.M. reversed American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company v. Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company 261 (1914) Lamar none none 4th Cir. certification Franklin v. Lynch 269 (1914) Lamar none none Okla. affirmed Tevis v. Ryan 273 (1914) Pitney none none Ariz. affirmed Lewis v. Frick 291 (1914) Pitney none none 6th Cir. affirmed Singer Sewing Machine Company v. Brickell 304 (1914) Pitney none none S.D. Ala. affirmed O'Sullivan v. Felix 318 (1914) McKenna none none 5th Cir. affirmed Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Anderson 325 (1914) McKenna none none Ark. affirmed Hammond Packing Company v. Montana 331 (1914) Holmes none none Mont. affirmed Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company v. Iowa 334 (1914) Hughes none none Iowa affirmed White v. Island Transportation Company 346 (1914) VanDevanter none none W.D. Wash. affirmed Farrugia v. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company 352 (1914) VanDevanter none none E.D. Pa. dismissed Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company v. George 354 (1914) Lamar none none Ga. Ct. App. affirmed Carondelet Canal and Navigation Company v. Louisiana 362 (1914) McKenna none none La. reversed German Alliance Insurance Company v. Lewis 389 (1914) McKenna none Lamar C.C.D. Kan. affirmed Wheeler v. Sohmer 434 (1914) Holmes McKenna Lamar N.Y. County Sur. Ct. affirmed Nadal v. May 447 (1914) Holmes none none D.P.R. affirmed San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company v. Stanislaus County 454 (1914) Holmes none none C.C.N.D. Cal. reversed Thaddeus Davids Company v. Davids Manufacturing Company 461 (1914) Hughes none none 2d Cir. reversed - style="background: white" colspan=7 Marks otherwise prohibited by the Act of 1905 (for example, surnames) can be registered if used exclusively for ten years preceding the act, per section 5 of that Act. Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Behrens 473 (1914) VanDevanter none none 5th Cir. certification Baer Brothers Mercantile Company v. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company 479 (1914) Lamar none none 8th Cir. reversed Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company v. Horton 492 (1914) Pitney none none N.C. reversed United States v. Vulte 509 (1914) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States v. Foster 515 (1914) McKenna none none D. Mass. reversed Bowling and Miami Investment Company v. United States 528 (1914) Hughes none none 8th Cir. affirmed Holden Land and Live Stock Company v. Interstate Trading Company 536 (1914) Hughes none Day Kan. dismissed Richards v. Washington Terminal Company 546 (1914) Pitney none none D.C. Cir. reversed Green v. Menominee Tribe 558 (1914) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Southern Railroad Company v. Gadd 572 (1914) White none none 6th Cir. affirmed Itow v. United States 581 (1914) White none none D. Alaska dismissed Apapas v. United States 587 (1914) White none none S.D. Cal. dismissed Cornell Steamboat Company v. Phoenix Construction Company 593 (1914) White none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company v. Arizona and Colorado Railroad Company 601 (1914) Holmes none none N.M. affirmed Gompers v. United States 604 (1914) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. reversed Logan v. Davis 613 (1914) VanDevanter none none Iowa reversed Smith v. Texas 630 (1914) Lamar none none Tex. Crim. App. reversed Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas v. Cade 642 (1914) Pitney none none Dallas County Justice Ct. affirmed Bowe v. Scott 658 (1914) White none none Va. dismissed McDonald v. Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company Company 665 (1914) White none none Or. dismissed Erie Railroad Company v. New York 671 (1914) McKenna none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. reversed Erie Railroad Company v. Williams 685 (1914) McKenna none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Valdes v. Larrinaga 705 (1914) Holmes none none D.P.R. affirmed Detroit Steel Cooperage Company v. Sistersville Brewing Company 712 (1914) Holmes none none 4th Cir. reversed Oceanic Steam Navigation Company v. Mellor 718 (1914) Holmes none none 2d Cir. certification

Notes and references

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