This is a list of cases reported in volume 271 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1926.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 271 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 271 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)

Notable Case in 271 U.S. Corrigan v. Buckley In Corrigan v. Buckley, 271 U.S. 323 (1926), the Supreme Court ruled that the racially restrictive covenant of multiple residents on S Street NW, between 18th Street and New Hampshire Avenue, in Washington, DC, was a legally-binding document that made the selling of a house to a black family a void contract. This ruling set a precedent upholding such covenants in Washington; racially restrictive covenants then flourished around the nation. It was only with Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) that the Supreme Court determined it unconstitutional for the legal system to enforce racially-restrictive covenants.

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 271 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Keith v. Johnson1 (1926) Butler none none 2d Cir. affirmed United States v. Mitchell9 (1926) Butler none none Ct. Cl. reversed Mottram v. United States15 (1926) Butler none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Evansville and Bowling Green Packet Company v. Chero Cola Bottling Company19 (1926) Butler none none D. Ind. affirmed Board of Public Utility Commissioners of New Jersey v. New York Telephone Company23 (1926) Butler none none D.N.J. affirmed Engel v. Davenport33 (1926) Sanford none none Cal. reversed Missouri ex rel. Hurwitz v. North40 (1926) Stone none none Mo. affirmed Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States43 (1926) Stone none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Roberts and Schaefer Company v. Emmerson50 (1926) Stone none none Ill. affirmed Reading Company v. Koons58 (1926) Stone none none Pa. reversed Massachusetts v. New York65 (1926) Stone none none original decree for N.Y. Sun Ship Building Company v. United States96 (1926) Taft none none Ct. Cl. multiple Great Northern Railroad Company v. Galbreath Cattle Company99 (1926) VanDevanter none none Mont. reversed Boyd v. United States104 (1926) VanDevanter none none 6th Cir. affirmed New York Life Insurance Company v. Edwards109 (1926) McReynolds none none 2d Cir. reversed Union Insulating and Construction Company v. United States121 (1926) Taft none none Ct. Cl. affirmed New York Central Railroad Company v. New York and Pennsylvania Company124 (1926) Holmes none none Pa. reversed Venner v. Michigan Central Railroad Company127 (1926) VanDevanter none none N.D. Ohio affirmed Patterson v. Mobile Gas Company131 (1926) McReynolds none none M.D. Ala. affirmed Iselin v. United States136 (1926) Taft none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Early and Daniel Company v. United States140 (1926) Taft none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States ex rel. Hughes v. Gault142 (1926) Holmes none Brandeis S.D. Iowa affirmed Colorado v. United States153 (1926) Brandeis none none D. Colo. affirmed Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Company170 (1926) Butler none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed Taylor v. Voss176 (1926) Sanford none none 7th Cir. reversed Harrison v. Chamberlin191 (1926) Sanford none none 8th Cir. affirmed Hassler, Inc. v. Shaw195 (1926) Holmes none none E.D.S.C. reversed United States v. Noveck201 (1926) Butler none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed Leiter v. United States204 (1926) Sanford none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Booth Fisheries Company v. Industrial Relations Commission of Wisconsin208 (1926) Taft none none Wis. affirmed United States v. Minnesota Mutual Investment Company212 (1926) Taft none none D. Colo. reversed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Nixon218 (1926) Holmes none none Va. reversed Virginian Railroad Company v. Mullens220 (1926) VanDevanter none none Wyoming County Cir. Ct. reversed General Investment Company v. New York Central Railroad Company228 (1926) VanDevanter none none N.D. Ohio reversed Sperry Gyroscope Company v. Arma Engineering Company232 (1926) McReynolds none none E.D.N.Y. reversed Mellon v. Michigan Trust Company236 (1926) McReynolds none none 6th Cir. affirmed Fenner v. Boykin240 (1926) McReynolds none none N.D. Ga. affirmed Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company v. Jackson and Eastern Railway Company244 (1926) Brandeis none none Miss. reversed Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company v. Alvin R. Durham Company251 (1926) Brandeis none none Mich. reversed Turner, Dennis and Lowry Lumber Company v. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company259 (1926) Brandeis none none W.D. Mo. affirmed United States v. Wyckoff Pipe and Creosoting Company, Inc.263 (1926) Brandeis none none Ct. Cl. reversed Western Paper Makers' Chemical Company v. United States268 (1926) Brandeis none none W.D. Mich. affirmed Sutherland, Alien Property Custodian v. Mayer272 (1926) Sutherland none none 1st Cir. reversed Henkels v. Sutherland, Alien Property Custodian298 (1926) Sutherland none none 2d Cir. reversed Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. Oklahoma303 (1926) Butler none none Okla. reversed United States v. Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company310 (1926) Butler none none Ct. Cl. reversed Culver v. United States315 (1926) Butler none none Ct. Cl. reversed Hay v. The May Department Stores Company318 (1926) Sanford none none E.D. Mo. reversed Corrigan v. Buckley323 (1926) Sanford none none D.C. Cir. dismissed United States v. Zerbey332 (1926) Sanford none none 3d Cir. certification Lederer v. McGarvey342 (1926) Sanford none none 3d Cir. dismissed St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company v. Mills344 (1926) Stone none none 5th Cir. reversed Blair v. United States ex rel. Birkenstock348 (1926) Stone none none D.C. Cir. reversed United States v. Katz354 (1926) Stone none none E.D. Pa. affirmed Appleby v. City of New York364 (1926) Taft none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. reversed Appleby v. Delaney403 (1926) Taft none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. reversed Thornton v. United States414 (1926) Taft none none 5th Cir. affirmed Old Colony Trust Company v. City of Seattle426 (1926) VanDevanter none none W.D. Wash. reversed United States v. Candelaria432 (1926) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. certification Kansas City Terminal Railway Company v. Central Union Trust Company of New York445 (1926) McReynolds none none 8th Cir. certification Home Furniture Company v. United States456 (1926) McReynolds none none W.D. Texas affirmed Ex parte Buder461 (1926) Brandeis none none Mo. Dist. Ct. mandamus denied United States v. Ramsey467 (1926) Sutherland none none W.D. Okla. reversed Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company v. Coogan472 (1926) Butler none none Minn. reversed Ma-King Products Company v. Blair479 (1926) Sanford none none 3d Cir. affirmed Davis v. Williford484 (1926) Sanford none none Okla. affirmed City of Douglas v. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas489 (1926) Stone none none 5th Cir. affirmed Raffel v. United States494 (1926) Stone none none 6th Cir. certification Yu Cong Eng v. Trinidad500 (1926) Taft none none Phil. reversed Alejandrino v. Quezon528 (1926) Taft none none Phil. dismissed Goltra v. Weeks536 (1926) Taft none McReynolds 8th Cir. affirmed Steamship Northern Star552 (1926) Holmes none McReynolds 2d Cir. reversed Panama Railroad Company v. Vasquez557 (1926) VanDevanter none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Steamship Pesaro562 (1926) VanDevanter none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines v. Lord577 (1926) McReynolds none none D. Minn affirmed Frost and Frost Trucking Company v. Railroad Commission of California583 (1926) Sutherland none Holmes; McReynolds Cal. reversed Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. United States603 (1926) Sutherland none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Jaybird Mining Company v. Weir609 (1926) Butler none Brandeis Okla. reversed Hammer v. United States620 (1926) Butler none none 2d Cir. reversed Arkansas v. Tennessee629 (1926) Butler none none original boundary set Scott v. Paisley632 (1926) Sanford none none Ga. affirmed Massachusetts v. New York636 (1926) Holmes none none original dismissed

Notes and references

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