This is a list of cases reported in volume 183 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1901 and 1902.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 183 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 183 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 183 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Holzapfel's Compositions Company v. Rahtjen's American Composition Company 1 (1901) Peckham none none 2d Cir. reversed Knoxville Iron Company v. Harbison 13 (1901) Shiras none none Tenn. affirmed Dayton Coal and Iron Company v. Barton 23 (1901) Shiras none none Tenn. affirmed McMaster v. New York Life Insurance Company 25 (1901) Fuller none none 8th Cir. reversed Mitchell v. Potomac Insurance Company 42 (1901) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. Missouri Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners 53 (1901) Brewer none none Mo. reversed District of Columbia v. Eslin 62 (1901) Harlan none none Ct. Cl. dismissed Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company v. Hewes 66 (1901) Brown none none Miss. affirmed Cotting v. Kansas City Stock Yards Company 79 (1901) Brewer Harlan none C.C.D. Kan. reversed Dinsmore v. Southern Express Company 115 (1901) Harlan none none 5th Cir. affirmed Wilson v. Merchants' Loan and Trust Company 121 (1901) Peckham none none 7th Cir. affirmed Haseltine v. Central National Bank I 130 (1901) Brown none none Mo. dismissed Haseltine v. Central National Bank II 132 (1901) Brown none none Mo. affirmed Storti v. Massachusetts 138 (1901) Brewer none none C.C.D. Mass. affirmed Pinney v. Nelson 144 (1901) Brewer none none Cal. Super. Ct. affirmed Dooley v. United States 151 (1901) Brown White Fuller C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed 14 Diamond Rings v. United States 176 (1901) Fuller Brown none N.D. Ill. reversed Arkansas v. Kansas and Texas Coal Company 185 (1901) Fuller none none C.C.W.D. Ark. reversed Wilson Brothers v. Nelson 191 (1901) Gray none Shiras 7th Cir. certification National Foundry and Pipe Works v. Oconto Water Supply Company 216 (1902) White none none Wis. affirmed Capital City Dairy Company v. Ohio 238 (1902) White none none Ohio affirmed Greene v. Henkel 249 (1902) Peckham none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed The Kensington 263 (1902) White none none 2d Cir. reversed Orr v. Gilman 278 (1902) Shiras none none N.Y. Cnty. Sur. Ct. affirmed Schrimpscher v. Stockton 290 (1902) Brown none none Kan. affirmed Gallup v. Schmidt 300 (1902) Shiras none none Ind. Cir. Ct. affirmed Northern Assurance Company v. Grand View Building Association 308 (1902) Shiras none none 8th Cir. reversed Carter v. McClaughry 365 (1902) Fuller none none C.C.D. Kan. affirmed Guarantee Company of North America v. Mechanics Savings Bank and Trust Company 402 (1902) Fuller none none 6th Cir. reversed Tucker v. Alexandroff 424 (1902) Brown Peckham Gray 3d Cir. reversed Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad Company v. Reynolds 471 (1902) Brewer none Brown Fla. affirmed McChord v. City of Cincinnati 483 (1902) Fuller none none C.C.D. Ky. reversed Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Kentucky 503 (1902) Shiras none none Ky. affirmed Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. United States 519 (1902) Brewer none none 9th Cir. reversed United States Trust Company v. New Mexico 535 (1902) Brewer none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Ex parte Wilder's Steamship Company 545 (1902) Gray none none 9th Cir. mandamus denied Nutting v. Massachusetts 553 (1902) Gray none Harlan Mass. Super. Ct. affirmed Minder v. Georgia 559 (1902) Fuller none none Ga. Super. Ct. affirmed McKinley Creek Mining Company v. Alaska United Mining Company 563 (1902) McKenna none none D. Alaska affirmed Maese v. Herman 572 (1902) McKenna none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Zernecke 582 (1902) McKenna none none Neb. affirmed Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Eaton 589 (1902) McKenna none none Neb. affirmed United States Repair and Guarantee Company v. Assyrian Asphalt Company 591 (1902) McKenna none none 7th Cir. affirmed Midway Company v. Eaton I 602 (1902) McKenna none none Minn. affirmed Midway Company v. Eaton II 619 (1902) McKenna none none Minn. affirmed Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Reiss 621 (1902) Peckham none none 2d Cir. affirmed Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Callender 632 (1902) Peckham none none 2d Cir. affirmed Sun Printing and Publishing Association v. Moore 642 (1902) White none none 2d Cir. affirmed Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. Bell 675 (1902) Brown none none Cal. affirmed Groeck v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company 690 (1902) Brown none none 9th Cir. reversed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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