This is a list of cases reported in volume 175 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1899 and 1900.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 175 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 175 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) 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) Edward Douglass White Associate Justice Louisiana Samuel Blatchford (Acclamation) –December 18, 1910(Continued as chief justice) Rufus W. Peckham Associate Justice New York Howell Edmunds Jackson (Acclamation) –October 24, 1909(Died) Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field (Acclamation) –January 5, 1925(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.

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 175 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition of case Jones v. Meehan 1 (1899) Gray none none C.C.D. Minn. affirmed Scudder v. Comptroller 32 (1899) Gray none none N.Y. County Sur. Ct. dismissed Anglo-Californian Bank v. United States 37 (1899) Fuller none none 9th Cir. dismissed De la Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company v. German Savings Institution 40 (1899) Brown none none 8th Cir. reversed United States v. Conway 60 (1899) Brown none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. reversed Real de Dolores v. United States 71 (1899) Brown none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. affirmed Ainsa v. New Mexico and Arizona Railroad Company 76 (1899) Gray none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. reversed Hartford Fire Insurance Company v. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company 91 (1899) Gray none none 8th Cir. affirmed Bienville Water Supply Company v. City of Mobile 109 (1899) Fuller none none C.C.S.D. Ala. affirmed In re Blake 114 (1899) Fuller none none Tenn. mandamus denied City of New Orleans v. Warner 120 (1899) Brown none none 5th Cir. affirmed Brady v. Daly 148 (1899) Peckham none none 2d Cir. affirmed Simms v. Simms 162 (1899) Gray none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed Brown v. New Jersey 172 (1899) Brewer none none N.J.O. and T. affirmed Coudert v. United States 178 (1899) McKenna none none 2d Cir. affirmed Markuson v. Boucher 184 (1899) McKenna none none D.N.D. affirmed The New York 187 (1899) Brown none none 6th Cir. reversed Addyston Pipe and Steel Company v. United States 211 (1899) Peckham none none 6th Cir. affirmed Hays v. United States 248 (1899) Brown none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. affirmed Bolles v. Outing Company 262 (1899) Brown none none 2d Cir. affirmed Arkansas Building and Loan Association v. Madden 269 (1899) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. Tex. affirmed Seeberger v. McCormick 274 (1899) Shiras none none Ill. dismissed Malony v. Adsit 281 (1899) Shiras none none D. Alaska affirmed Bradfield v. Roberts 291 (1899) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Niles v. Cedar Point Club 300 (1899) Brewer none none 6th Cir. affirmed City of New Orleans v. Stemple 309 (1899) Brewer none none C.C.E.D. La. reversed New York and New England Railroad Company v. Conroy 323 (1899) Shiras none Harlan 1st Cir. certification Tullis v. Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company 348 (1899) Fuller none none 7th Cir. certification The Pedro 354 (1899) Fuller none White S.D. Fla. affirmed The Guido 382 (1899) Fuller none none S.D. Fla. affirmed The Steamship Buena Ventura 384 (1899) Peckham none none S.D. Fla. reversed King v. Cross 396 (1899) White none none R.I. affirmed Abbott v. Tacoma Bank 409 (1899) Harlan none none Wash. affirmed Hamilton v. Rathbone 414 (1899) Brown none none D.C. Cir. reversed La Abra Silver Mining Company v. United States 423 (1899) Harlan none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States v. Pena 500 (1899) Brewer none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. reversed United States v. Chavez 509 (1899) McKenna none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. affirmed Bardes v. Hawarden First National Bank 526 (1899) Fuller none none N.D. Iowa dismissed Cumming v. Richmond County 528 (1899) Harlan none none Ga. Super. Ct. affirmed Peabody v. United States 546 (1899) Peckham none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. affirmed Chavez v. United States 552 (1900) Peckham none none Ct. Priv. Land Cl. affirmed Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Amacker 564 (1900) Brewer none none 9th Cir. affirmed Blackburn v. Portland Gold Mining Company 571 (1900) Shiras none none C.C.D. Colo. affirmed United States v. Gleason 588 (1900) Shiras none none Ct. Cl. reversed Canada Sugar Refining Company v. Insurance Company of North America 609 (1900) Shiras none none 2d Cir. reversed Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company v. Illinois 626 (1900) Fuller none none Ill. affirmed Whitcomb v. Smithson 635 (1900) Fuller none none Minn. affirmed Telluride Power Transmission Company v. Rio Grande Western Railway Company 639 (1900) Brown none none Utah dismissed Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Behlmer 648 (1900) White none none 4th Cir. reversed The Paquete Habana 677 (1899) Gray none Fuller S.D. Fla. reversed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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