This is a list of cases reported in volume 153 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1894.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 153 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 153 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) 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) 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) George Shiras Jr. Associate Justice Pennsylvania Joseph P. Bradley (Acclamation) –February 23, 1903(Retired) Howell Edmunds Jackson Associate Justice Tennessee Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Acclamation) –August 8, 1895(Died) Edward Douglass White Associate Justice Louisiana Samuel Blatchford (Acclamation) –December 18, 1910(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.

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 153 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Lowndes v. Town of Huntington1 (1894) Brewer none none C.C.E.D.N.Y. affirmed Seeberger v. Castro32 (1894) White none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Spalding v. Castro38 (1894) White none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Wilson v. Haley L.S. Co.39 (1894) Brown none none C.C.D. Colo. reversed United States v. Pridgeon48 (1894) Jackson none none 6th Cir. certification The Martello64 (1894) Brown none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed West v. Cabell78 (1894) Gray none none C.C.N.D. Tex. reversed United States v. Shields88 (1894) Jackson none none Ct. Cl. reversed United States v. Klingenberg93 (1894) Jackson none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed Lutz v. Magone105 (1894) Brown none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Hegler v. Faulkner109 (1894) Shiras none none C.C.D. Neb. affirmed Morgan v. Daniels120 (1894) Brewer none none C.C.D. Mass. reversed The Britannia130 (1894) Shiras none Brown C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed Wharton v. Wise155 (1894) Field none none C.C.E.D. Va. affirmed Erhardt v. Steinhardt177 (1894) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Gourko v. United States183 (1894) Harlan none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed Hanrick v. Hanrick192 (1894) Gray none none C.C.N.D. Tex. reversed The Edwin I. Morrison199 (1894) Fuller none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed Runkle v. Burnham216 (1894) White none none C.C.D.N.J. affirmed Burke v. Dulaney228 (1894) Harlan none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Idaho reversed California v. Southern P.R.R. Co.239 (1894) per curiam none none original procedural orders In re City Nat'l Bank246 (1894) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Tex. mandamus denied Northern P.R.R. Co. v. Clark252 (1894) Jackson none none 8th Cir. certification Mann v. Tacoma Land Co.273 (1894) Brewer none none C.C.D. Wash. affirmed Baer v. Moran Bros. Co.287 (1894) Brewer none none Wash. affirmed Brennan v. City of Titusville289 (1894) Brewer none none Pa. reversed Blitz v. United States308 (1894) Harlan none none W.D. Mo. multiple McBroom v. Scottish M. & L. Inv. Co.318 (1894) Harlan none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Gates I.W. v. Fraser332 (1894) Shiras none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed South Carolina v. Seymour353 (1894) Gray none none D.C. Ct. App. dismissed Mason v. Pewabic M. Co.361 (1894) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. Mich. dismissed Roberts v. Lewis367 (1894) Gray none none 8th Cir. certification Marchant v. Pennsylvania R.R. Co.380 (1894) Shiras none none Philadelphia Cnty. Ct. Com. Pl. affirmed Brass v. North Dakota ex rel. Stoeser391 (1894) Shiras none Brewer Ramsey Cnty. Dist. Ct. affirmed City of New Orleans v. Benjamin411 (1894) Fuller none none 5th Cir. certification Ashley v. Ryan436 (1894) White none none Ohio affirmed Eagle Ins. Co. v. Ohio ex rel. Kinder446 (1894) White none none Ohio affirmed Stewart v. Barnes456 (1894) Shiras none none C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed Groves v. Sentell465 (1894) White none none C.C.E.D. La. reversed Mobile & O.R.R. Co. v. Tennessee486 (1894) Jackson none Fuller Tenn. reversed Slide S.G. Mines v. Seymour509 (1894) Brewer none none C.C.D. Colo. affirmed Seymour v. Slide S.G. Mines523 (1894) Brewer none none C.C.D. Colo. affirmed Luxton v. North R.B. Co.525 (1894) Gray none none C.C.D.N.J. affirmed Miller v. Texas535 (1894) Brown none none Tex. Crim. App. dismissed Anvil M. Co. v. Humble540 (1894) Brewer none none C.C.W.D. Mich. affirmed Chicago D.V. Co. v. McNulta554 (1894) Jackson none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Loud v. Pomona L. & W. Co.564 (1894) Jackson none none C.C.E.D. Mich. affirmed Evans v. United States I584 (1894) Brown none Field E.D. Pa. affirmed Evans v. United States II608 (1894) Brown none Field E.D. Pa. affirmed Seeberger v. Schweyer609 (1894) Shiras none none C.C.N.D. Ill. reversed Starr v. United States614 (1894) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed New York et al. R.R. Co. v. Pennsylvania628 (1894) Harlan none none Pa. reversed Lyons v. Woods649 (1894) Fuller none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Metcalf v. City of Watertown671 (1894) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. Wis. reversed McKane v. Durston684 (1894) Harlan none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Connecticut ex rel. New York et al. Co. v. Woodruff689 (1894) Fuller none none Conn. dismissed Postal T.C. Co v. City of Charleston692 (1894) Shiras none none C.C.D.S.C. affirmed

Notes and references

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