This is a list of cases reported in volume 269 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1925 and 1926.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 269 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 269 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) 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) Harlan F. Stone Associate Justice New York Joseph McKenna (71–6) –July 2, 1941(Continued as chief justice)

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 269 U.S. Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Patterson v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company1 (1925) Brandeis none none 5th Cir. affirmed United States ex rel. Kennedy v. Tyler13 (1925) Sutherland none none W.D.N.Y. affirmed Agnello v. United States20 (1925) Butler none none 2d Cir. multiple Druggan v. Anderson36 (1925) Holmes none none N.D. Ill. affirmed American Railway Express Company v. Daniel40 (1925) Holmes none none Ga. reversed Buckeye Coal and Railway Company v. Hocking Valley Railway Company42 (1925) Taft none none S.D. Ohio affirmed Donegan v. Dyson49 (1925) Taft none none S.D. Fla. affirmed Old Dominion Land Company v. United States55 (1925) Holmes none none 4th Cir. affirmed Western Union Telegraph Company v. Georgia67 (1925) Holmes none none Ga. dismissed Hicks v. Guinness71 (1925) Holmes none none 2d Cir. multiple Enrique del Pozo y Marcos v. Wilson Cypress Company82 (1925) VanDevanter none none 5th Cir. affirmed Lipshitz and Cohen v. United States90 (1925) McReynolds none none N.D. Ga. affirmed Margolin v. United States93 (1925) McReynolds none none 2d Cir. affirmed Woerishoffer v. United States102 (1925) Brandeis none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Burk-Waggoner Oil Association v. Hopkins110 (1925) Brandeis none none N.D. Tex. affirmed Davis v. Alexander114 (1925) Brandeis none none Okla. affirmed Hicks v. Poe118 (1925) Brandeis none none 4th Cir. affirmed Freshman v. Atkins121 (1925) Sutherland none none 5th Cir. affirmed Gulf Refining Company v. United States125 (1925) Sutherland none none 5th Cir. multiple Anderson v. Clune140 (1925) Sutherland none none 9th Cir. certification Stilz v. United States144 (1925) Butler none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Kansas City Structural Steel Company v. Arkansas ex rel. Ashley County148 (1925) Butler none none Ark. affirmed Arkansas v. Tennessee152 (1925) Butler none none original boundary set Davis v. John L. Roper Lumber Company158 (1925) Butler none none Va. reversed Stephenson v. Kirtley163 (1925) Sanford none none S.D.W. Va. affirmed Beazell v. Ohio167 (1925) Stone none none Ohio affirmed Arkansas ex rel. Utley v. St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company172 (1925) Stone none none Ark. dismissed Concrete Appliances Company v. Gomery177 (1925) Stone none none 3d Cir. affirmed Southern Electric Company v. Stoddard186 (1925) Taft none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed Central Union Telephone Company v. City of Edwardsville190 (1925) Taft none none Ill. dismissed United States v. Boston Insurance Company197 (1925) McReynolds none none Ct. Cl. reversed Edwards v. Douglas204 (1925) Brandeis none none 2d Cir. reversed Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company217 (1925) Brandeis none McReynolds; Stone 5th Cir. affirmed New York ex rel. Woodhaven Gas Light Company v. Public Service Commission of New York244 (1925) Butler none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Work v. Louisiana250 (1925) Sanford none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Matthews v. Huwe262 (1925) Taft none none Ohio Dist. Ct. App. dismissed Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. United States266 (1925) Holmes none none 7th Cir. reversed Pacific American Fisheries v. Alaska269 (1925) Holmes none none 9th Cir. affirmed Henderson Water Company v. Corporation Commission of North Carolina278 (1925) Taft none none E.D.N.C. affirmed White v. Mechanics Securities Corporation283 (1925) Holmes none none multiple affirmed Ex parte Gruber302 (1925) Sutherland none none original mandamus denied United States v. New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company304 (1925) Sanford none none 2d Cir. reversed United States v. Robbins315 (1926) Holmes none none N.D. Cal. reversed New Jersey v. Sargent328 (1926) VanDevanter none none original dismissed First National Bank of Guthrie Center v. Anderson341 (1926) VanDevanter none none Iowa reversed Live Oak Water Users' Association v. Railroad Commission of California354 (1926) McReynolds none none Cal. dismissed United States v. Daugherty360 (1926) McReynolds none none 8th Cir. reversed O'Hara v. Luckenbach Steamship Company364 (1926) Sutherland none none 9th Cir. reversed American Steel Foundries v. Robertson372 (1926) Sutherland none none 7th Cir. certification Connally v. General Construction Company385 (1926) Sutherland none none W.D. Okla. affirmed Browning v. Hooper396 (1926) Butler none none N.D. Tex. reversed Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company v. Goneau406 (1926) Sanford none none Minn. affirmed United States v. River Rouge Improvement Company411 (1926) Sanford none none 6th Cir. reversed United States v. Anderson422 (1926) Stone none none Ct. Cl. reversed Provost v. United States443 (1926) Stone none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Independent Wireless Telegraph Company v. Radio Corporation of America459 (1926) Taft none none 2d Cir. affirmed Trusler v. Crooks475 (1926) McReynolds none none W.D. Mo. reversed Bramwell v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company483 (1926) Butler none none 9th Cir. affirmed Price v. United States492 (1926) Butler none none 2d Cir. affirmed Stripe v. United States503 (1926) Butler none none 2d Cir. affirmed United States v. Butterworth-Judson Corporation504 (1926) Butler none none 2d Cir. reversed Metcalf and Eddy v. Mitchell514 (1926) Stone none none D. Mass. multiple

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