This is a list of cases reported in volume 142 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1891 and 1892.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 142 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 142 U.S. 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 Melville Fuller Chief Justice Illinois Morrison Waite (41–20) –July 4, 1910(Died) Stephen Johnson Field Associate Justice California newly created seat (Acclamation)–December 1, 1897(Retired) Joseph P. Bradley Associate Justice New Jersey newly created seat (46–9) –January 22, 1892(Died) John Marshall Harlan Associate Justice Kentucky David Davis (Acclamation) –October 14, 1911(Died) Horace Gray Associate Justice Massachusetts Nathan Clifford (51–5) –September 15, 1902(Died) Samuel Blatchford Associate Justice New York Ward Hunt (Acclamation) –July 7, 1893(Died) Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Associate Justice Mississippi William Burnham Woods (32–28) –January 23, 1893(Died) David Josiah Brewer Associate Justice Kansas Stanley Matthews (53–11) –March 28, 1910(Died) Henry Billings Brown Associate Justice Michigan Samuel Freeman Miller (Acclamation) –May 28, 1906(Retired)

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. The change resulted in an immediate reduction in the Supreme Court's workload (from 623 cases filed in 1890 to 379 in 1891 and 275 in 1892).

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 142 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Sparhawk v. Yerkes 1 (1891) Fuller none Brewer C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company v. Jopes 18 (1891) Brewer none none C.C.S.D. Miss. reversed Pearce v. Rice 28 (1891) Harlan none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Farnsworth v. Duffner 43 (1891) Brewer none none D.W. Va. reversed Finn v. Brown 56 (1891) Blatchford none none C.C.D. Colo. affirmed Hammond v. Johnston 73 (1891) Fuller none none Mo. dismissed City of New Orleans v. New Orleans Water Works Company 79 (1891) Brown none Harlan La. dismissed Franklin County v. German Savings Bank 93 (1891) Brown none none C.C.S.D. Ill. affirmed Coghlan v. South Carolina Railroad Company 101 (1891) Harlan none none C.C.D.S.C. affirmed Hall v. Cordell 116 (1891) Harlan none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Chever v. Horner 122 (1891) Fuller none none Colo. dismissed Van Stone v. Stillwell Bierce Manufacturing Company 128 (1891) Lamar none none C.C.W.D. Mo. affirmed Wauton v. De Wolf 138 (1891) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Cal. dismissed Claassen v. United States 140 (1891) Gray none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Simmons v. United States 148 (1891) Gray none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed McElvaine v. Brush 155 (1891) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Trezza v. Brush 160 (1891) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Knight v. United States Land Association 161 (1891) Lamar Field none Cal. reversed Maine v. Grand Trunk Railway Company 217 (1891) Field none Bradley C.C.D. Me. reversed Martin v. Gray 236 (1891) Brewer none none C.C.D. Ky. affirmed Deseret Salt Company v. Tarpey 241 (1891) Field none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah affirmed Kaukauna Water Power Company v. Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company 254 (1891) Brown none none Wis. Cir. Ct. affirmed St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company v. Todd County 282 (1892) Fuller none none Minn. dismissed Tyler v. Cass County 288 (1892) Fuller none none N.D. dismissed Stutsman County v. Wallace 293 (1892) Fuller none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Dakota reversed Sunflower Oil Company v. Wilson 313 (1892) Brown none none N.D. Miss. affirmed Gisborn v. Charter Oak Life Insurance Company 326 (1892) Brewer none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah affirmed Pacific Express Company v. Seibert 339 (1892) Lamar none none C.C.W.D. Mo. affirmed Chaffee County v. Potter 355 (1892) Lamar none none C.C.D. Colo. affirmed Doon Township v. Cummins 366 (1892) Gray none Brown C.C.N.D. Iowa reversed Scott v. Ellery 381 (1892) Harlan none none C.C.S.D. Iowa affirmed Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company v. Gibbes 386 (1892) Field none none S.C. affirmed Wiggins Ferry Company v. Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company 396 (1892) Brown none none C.C.S.D. Ill. reversed Simmons Creek Coal Company v. Doran 417 (1892) Fuller none none D.W. Va. affirmed Boyd v. United States 450 (1892) Harlan none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed Fisk v. Henarie 459 (1892) Fuller none Harlan C.C.D. Or. reversed Thompson v. United States 471 (1892) Brown none none C.C.D. Ky. affirmed Ex parte Fassett 479 (1892) Blatchford none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. prohibition denied Eames v. Kaiser 488 (1892) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Tex. reversed Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Washington ex rel. Dustin 492 (1892) Gray none Brewer Sup. Ct. Terr. Wash. reversed United States v. Des Moines Navigation and Railway Company 510 (1892) Brewer none none C.C.N.D. Iowa affirmed Counselman v. Hitchcock 547 (1892) Blatchford none none C.C.N.D. Ill. reversed McNee v. Donahue 587 (1892) Field none none Cal. affirmed Phelps v. Siegfried 602 (1892) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Cal. reversed Magone v. Rosenstein 604 (1892) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Kennedy v. KcKee 606 (1892) Harlan none none C.C.N.D. Tex. affirmed United States v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company 615 (1892) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed South Branch Lumber Company v. Ott 622 (1892) Brewer none none C.C.S.D. Iowa affirmed Delaware City, Salem & Philadelphia Steamboat Navigation Company v. Reybold 636 (1892) Lamar none none Del. dismissed Petri v. Commercial National Bank 644 (1892) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Tex. affirmed Nishimura Ekiu v. United States 651 (1892) Gray none none C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed Bird v. Benlisa 664 (1892) Brewer none none C.C.N.D. Fla. affirmed Convers v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company 671 (1892) Brewer none none C.C.N.D. Ill. reversed Hedden v. Iselin 676 (1892) Blatchford none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Clark v. Sidway 682 (1892) Blatchford none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Home Benefit Association v. Sargent 691 (1892) Blatchford none Brown C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed

Notes and references

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