This is a list of cases reported in volume 263 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1923 and 1924.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 263 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 263 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 William Howard Taft Chief Justice Connecticut Edward Douglass White (Acclamation) –February 3, 1930(Retired) 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) Willis Van Devanter Associate Justice Wyoming Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) (Acclamation) –June 2, 1937(Retired) James Clark McReynolds Associate Justice Tennessee Horace Harmon Lurton (44–6) –January 31, 1941(Retired) Louis Brandeis Associate Justice Massachusetts Joseph Rucker Lamar (47–22) –February 13, 1939(Retired) George Sutherland Associate Justice Utah John Hessin Clarke (Acclamation) –January 17, 1938(Retired) Pierce Butler Associate Justice Minnesota William R. Day (61–8) –November 16, 1939(Died) Edward Terry Sanford Associate Justice Tennessee Mahlon Pitney (Acclamation) –March 8, 1930(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. 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 "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.,"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 263 U.S. Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Frese v. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company1 (1923) Holmes none none Mo. affirmed Brede v. Powers4 (1923) McKenna none none E.D.N.Y. affirmed Wyman v. United States14 (1923) McKenna none none E.D.N.Y. affirmed United States v. Walter15 (1923) Holmes none none S.D. Fla. reversed American Railway Express Company v. Levee19 (1923) Holmes none none La. reversed Davis v. Wechsler22 (1923) Holmes none none Mo. Ct. App. reversed Director General of Railroads v. Kastenbaum25 (1923) Taft none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Denby v. Berry29 (1923) Taft none none D.C. Cir. reversed McConaughey v. Morrow39 (1923) Taft none none 5th Cir. affirmed Woodbridge v. United States50 (1923) Taft none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Myers v. International Trust Company64 (1923) Taft none none Mass. Super. Ct. reversed Brown v. United States78 (1923) Taft none none D. Idaho affirmed Schwab v. Richardson88 (1923) McKenna none none Cal. affirmed United States v. Slaymaker94 (1923) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed New Orleans Land Company v. Brott97 (1923) Holmes none none La. dismissed Heyer v. Duplicator Manufacturing Company100 (1923) Holmes none none 7th Cir. reversed Des Moines National Bank v. Fairweather103 (1923) VanDevanter none none Iowa affirmed St. Johns N.F. Shipping Corporation v. Companhia Geral Commercial do Rio de Janeiro119 (1923) McReynolds none none 2d Cir. affirmed Superior Water, Light and Power Company v. City of Superior125 (1923) McReynolds none none Wis. reversed Baker v. Druesedow137 (1923) Brandeis none none Tex. affirmed Edward Hines Trustees v. United States143 (1923) Brandeis none none N.D. Ill. affirmed United States ex rel. Bilokumsky v. Tod149 (1923) Brandeis none none] S.D.N.Y. affirmed Davis v. Slocomb158 (1923) Brandeis none none 9th Cir. dismissed Butters v. City of Oakland162 (1923) Sutherland none none Cal. Ct. App. affirmed Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Hurni Packing Company167 (1923) Sutherland none none 8th Cir. affirmed United States v. Merriam179 (1923) Sutherland none none 2d Cir. affirmed Klebe v. United States188 (1923) Sutherland none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Anderson v. Corall193 (1923) Butler none none 8th Cir. reversed Terrace v. Thompson197 (1923) Butler none none W.D. Wash. affirmed Porterfield v. Webb225 (1923) Butler none none S.D. Cal. affirmed McGregor v. Hogan234 (1923) Sanford none none Ga. affirmed Davis v. Wolfe239 (1923) Sanford none none Mo. affirmed Canute Steamship Company, Ltd. v. Pittsburgh and West Virginia Coal Company244 (1923) Sanford none none 2d Cir. affirmed Craig v. Hecht255 (1923) McReynolds Taft Holmes 2d Cir. affirmed Security Saving Bank v. California282 (1923) Brandeis none none Cal. affirmed Binderup v. Pathe Exchange, Inc.291 (1923) Sutherland none none 8th Cir. reversed Webb v. O’Brien313 (1923) Butler none none N.D. Cal. reversed Frick v. Webb326 (1923) Butler none none N.D. Cal. affirmed Street v. Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast334 (1923) McKenna none none N.D. Cal. transfer to 9th Cir. Clallam County v. United States341 (1923) Holmes none none 9th Cir. certification Brosnan v. Brosnan345 (1923) Sanford none none D.C. Cir. certification Pennsylvania v. West Virginia350 (1923) VanDevanter none none original reaffirmed Hightower v. American National Bank of Macon351 (1923) VanDevanter none none 5th Cir. affirmed King County v. Seattle School District No. 1361 (1923) Butler none none 9th Cir. reversed North Dakota v. Minnesota365 (1923) Taft none none original dismissed Ex parte United States389 (1923) McKenna none none E.D. Mo. prohibition denied Lehmann v. State Board of Public Accountancy of Alabama394 (1923) McKenna none none Ala. affirmed Diaz v. Patterson399 (1923) Holmes none none 5th Cir. affirmed National Association of Window Glass Manufacturers v. United States403 (1923) Holmes none none N.D. Ohio reversed Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Company413 (1923) VanDevanter none none D. Ind. affirmed Cudahy Packing Company v. Parramore418 (1923) Sutherland none none Utah affirmed Arnold v. United States ex rel. W.B. Guimarin and Company427 (1923) Sanford none none 4th Cir. dismissed Brady v. Work435 (1924) Taft none none D.C. Cir. affirmed McMillan Contracting Company v. Abernathy438 (1924) Taft none none multiple remanded Tidal Oil Company v. Flanagan444 (1924) Taft none none Okla. dismissed Dayton-Goose Creek Railway Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission456 (1924) Taft none none E.D. Tex. affirmed Queen Insurance Company v. Globe and Rutgers Fire Insurance Company487 (1924) Holmes none none 2d Cir. affirmed New York v. Jersawit493 (1924) Holmes none none 2d Cir. reversed Ide v. United States497 (1924) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. affirmed Southern Power Company v. North Carolina Public Service Company508 (1924) McReynolds none none 4th Cir. dismissed Haavik v. Alaska Packers' Association510 (1924) McReynolds none none N.D. Cal. affirmed United States v. Illinois Central Railroad Company515 (1924) Brandeis none none multiple multiple Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company v. United States528 (1924) Brandeis none none S.D. Ill. reversed Corona Coal Company v. United States537 (1924) Sutherland none none Ct. Cl. dismissed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company v. Burtch540 (1924) Sutherland none none Ind. reversed Lacoste v. Department of Conservation of Louisiana545 (1924) Butler none none La. affirmed Giles v. Vette553 (1924) Butler none none 7th Cir. affirmed Federal Trade Commission v. Raymond Brothers-Clark Company565 (1924) Sanford none none 8th Cir. affirmed Wilson v. Illinois Southern Railway Company574 (1924) Holmes none none E.D. Ill. affirmed Trinidad v. Sagrada Orden de Predicadores de la Provincia del Santisimo Rosario de Filipinas578 (1924) VanDevanter none none Phil. affirmed North Dakota v. Minnesota583 (1924) Taft none none original costs taxed Delaney v. United States586 (1924) McKenna none none 7th Cir. affirmed Banco Mexicano v. Deutsche Bank591 (1924) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed United States v. New York Central Railroad Company603 (1924) Holmes none none D. Mass. affirmed United States v. Coffee and Sugar Exchange, Inc.611 (1924) Taft none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed Electric Boat Company v. United States621 (1924) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Washington-Southern Navigation Company v. Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company629 (1924) Brandeis none none 3d Cir. certification First National Bank in St. Louis v. Missouri640 (1924) Sutherland none VanDevanter Mo. affirmed

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