This is a list of cases reported in volume 264 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1924.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 264 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 264 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 264 U.S. Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Chicago Board of Trade v. Johnson1 (1924) Taft none none 7th Cir. reversed Barnett v. Kunkel16 (1924) Taft none none 8th Cir. rehearing denied Puget Sound Power and Light Company v. King County22 (1924) Taft none none Wash. affirmed Fleming v. Fleming29 (1924) Taft none none Iowa dismissed Mahler v. Eby32 (1924) Taft none none N.D. Ill. reversed Young Men's Christian Association of Columbus v. Davis47 (1924) Taft none none Ohio affirmed Standard Parts Company v. Peck52 (1924) McKenna none none 6th Cir. reversed Edwards v. Slocum61 (1924) Holmes none none 2d Cir. affirmed United States ex rel. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission64 (1924) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Texas Railroad Commission v. Eastern Texas Railroad Company79 (1924) VanDevanter none none W.D. Tex. affirmed The Gul Djemal90 (1924) McReynolds none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed Myers v. United States95 (1924) McReynolds none none W.D. Mo. affirmed Ex parte Transportes Maritimos105 (1924) McReynolds none none S.D.N.Y. prohibition denied Red Cross Line v.Atlantic Fruit Company109 (1924) Brandeis none McReynolds N.Y. Sup. Ct. reversed United States ex rel. Tisi v. Tod131 (1924) Brandeis none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed United States ex rel. Mensevich v. Tod134 (1924) Brandeis none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed Pierce Oil Corporation v. Hopkins137 (1924) Brandeis none none 8th Cir. affirmed Packard v. Banton140 (1924) Sutherland none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed Sanguinetti v. United States146 (1924) Sutherland none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Texas Transport and Terminal Company Inc. v. City of New Orleans150 (1924) Sutherland none Brandeis La. reversed J.I. Raley and Brothers v. Richardson157 (1924) Sutherland none none Ga. affirmed Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond v. Malloy160 (1924) Sutherland none none 4th Cir. affirmed Jones v. Union Guano Company171 (1924) Butler none none N.C. affirmed Salem Trust Company v. Manufacturers' Finance Company182 (1924) Butler none none 1st Cir. reversed Guaranty Title and Trust Corporation v. United States200 (1924) Butler none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States v. State Investment Company206 (1924) Sanford none none 8th Cir. affirmed Perkins-Campbell Company v. United States213 (1924) Sanford none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Washington v. W.C. Dawson and Company219 (1924) McReynolds none Brandeis multiple affirmed Matthew Addy Company v. United States239 (1924) McReynolds none none 6th Cir. reversed Erickson v. United States246 (1924) McKenna none none W.D. Wash. affirmed Manufacturers' Land and Improvement Company v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and Public Service Railway Company250 (1924) VanDevanter none McKenna 3d Cir. affirmed Chicago Junction Case258 (1924) Brandeis none Sutherland N.D. Ill. reversed Smith v. Apple274 (1924) Sanford none none D. Kan. transfer to 8th Cir. Western Union Telegraph Company v. Czizek281 (1924) Holmes none none 9th Cir. reversed Dorchy v. Kansas286 (1924) Brandeis none none Kan. reversed Radice v. New York292 (1924) Sutherland none none Buffalo City Ct. affirmed Federal Trade Commission v. American Tobacco Company298 (1924) Holmes none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed First National Bank of Columbus v. Louisiana Highway Commission308 (1924) Butler none none E.D. La. affirmed Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company v. Sexton310 (1924) Sanford none none E.D. Wash. affirmed Keller v. Adams-Campbell Company, Inc.314 (1924) Taft none none 9th Cir. dismissed John E. Thropp's Sons Company v. Seiberling320 (1924) Taft none none 3d Cir. reversed California Railroad Commission. v. Southern Pacific Company331 (1924) Taft none none Cal. affirmed Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Nichols348 (1924) McKenna none none 9th Cir. affirmed United States v. Gay353 (1924) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Prestonettes, Inc. v. Coty359 (1924) Holmes none none 2d Cir. reversed Dillingham v. McLaughlin370 (1924) Holmes none none N.D.N.Y. reversed Panama Railroad Company v. Johnson375 (1924) VanDevanter none none 2d Cir. affirmed Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company393 (1924) McReynolds none none E.D. La. affirmed Rodman v. Pothier399 (1924) McReynolds none none 1st Cir. reversed Davis v. Portland Seed Company403 (1924) McReynolds none none 9th Cir. reversed Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Company, Inc. v. Fox426 (1924) Brandeis none none 2d Cir. reversed Nyanza Steamship Company, Ltd. v. Jahncke Dry Dock No. 1439 (1924) Brandeis none none E.D. La. dismissed Oliver American Trading Company, Inc. v. Government of the United States of Mexico440 (1924) Brandeis none none S.D.N.Y. transfer to 2d Cir. Chung Fook v. White443 (1924) Sutherland none none 9th Cir. affirmed United States v. Payne446 (1924) Sutherland none none 9th Cir. affirmed First National Bank of Greeley v. Weld County450 (1924) Sutherland none none D. Colo. affirmed E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company v. Davis456 (1924) Sutherland none none 8th Cir. affirmed Webster Electric Company v. Splitdorf Electric Company463 (1924) Sutherland none none 7th Cir. affirmed Georgia v. City of Chattanooga472 (1924) Butler none none original dismissed McCurdy v. United States484 (1924) Butler none none 8th Cir. affirmed Sperry Oil and Gas Company v. Chisholm488 (1924) Sanford none none 8th Cir. multiple Meek v. Centre County Banking Company499 (1924) Sanford none none 3d Cir. dismissal denied Jay Burns Baking Company v. Bryan504 (1924) Butler none Brandeis Neb. reversed Southeastern Express Company v. Robertson I535 (1924) McKenna none none Miss. affirmed Southeastern Express Company v. Robertson II541 (1924) McKenna none none S.D. Miss. affirmed Chastleton Corporation v. Sinclair543 (1924) Holmes Brandeis none D.C. Cir. reversed Hoffman v. McClelland552 (1924) VanDevanter none none W.D. Tex. affirmed Davis v. Cornwell560 (1924) Brandeis none none Mont. reversed United States v. Valante563 (1924) Sanford none none S.D.N.Y. reversed

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