This is a list of cases reported in volume 194 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1904.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 194 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 194 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) 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) 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) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate Justice Massachusetts Horace Gray (Acclamation) –January 12, 1932(Retired) William R. Day Associate Justice Ohio George Shiras Jr. (Acclamation) –November 13, 1922(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 194 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition People's et al. Co. v. City of Chicago 1 (1904) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Brown v. Schleier 18 (1904) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed ICC v. Baird 25 (1904) Day none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed Minnesota v. Northern S. Co. 48 (1904) Harlan none none C.C.D. Minn. reversed Beavers v. Henkel 73 (1904) Brewer none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Houghton v. Payne 88 (1904) Brown none Harlan D.C. Cir. affirmed Smith v. Payne 104 (1904) Brown none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Bates & G. Co. v. Payne 106 (1904) Brown none Harlan D.C. Cir. affirmed Pacific E. Ry. Co. v. City of Los Angeles 112 (1904) McKenna none none C.C.S.D. Cal. affirmed Slater v. Mexican N.R.R. Co. 120 (1904) Holmes none Fuller 5th Cir. affirmed Southern Ry. Co. v. Carson 136 (1904) Fuller none none S.C. affirmed Kirby v. American S.F. Co. 141 (1904) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Tex. affirmed Jones v. Montague 147 (1904) Brewer none none C.C.E.D. Va. dismissed Selden v. Montague 153 (1904) Brewer none none C.C.E.D. Va. dismissed Damon v. Hawaii 154 (1904) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. reversed United States v. Sing Tuck Or Do 161 (1904) Holmes none Brewer 2d Cir. reversed Gibson v. United States 182 (1904) Day none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Lowe v. United States 193 (1904) Day none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Ex parte United States 194 (1904) Fuller none none N.D. Ohio mandamus granted City & S. Ry. v. Svedborg 201 (1904) Harlan none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Pettit v. Walshe 205 (1904) Harlan none none C.C.D. Ind. affirmed Clipper M. Co. v. Eli M. & L. Co. 220 (1904) Brewer none none Colo. affirmed St. Louis M. & M. Co. v. Montana M. Co. 235 (1904) Brewer none none 9th Cir. affirmed The Iroquois 240 (1904) Brown none none 9th Cir. affirmed Elder v. Horseshoe M. & M. Co. 248 (1904) Peckham none none S.D. affirmed West v. Louisiana 258 (1904) Peckham none none La. affirmed Missouri et al. Ry. Co. v. May 267 (1904) Holmes none Brown Bell Cnty. Ct. affirmed Raphael v. Trask 272 (1904) Day none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed United States ex rel. Turner v. Williams 279 (1904) Fuller Brewer none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Hewit v. Berlin M. Works 296 (1904) Fuller none none 2d Cir. affirmed Hanks D. Ass'n v. International T.C. Co. 303 (1904) Fuller none none 2d Cir. certification Plymouth C. Co. v. Smith 311 (1904) Fuller none none 8th Cir. certification Ribas y Hijo v. United States 315 (1904) Harlan none none D.P.R. affirmed Bessette v. W.B. Conkey Co. 324 (1904) Brewer none none 7th Cir. certification Northern P. Ry. Co. v. Dixon 338 (1904) Brewer none White 8th Cir. certification Filhiol v. Torney 356 (1904) Brewer none none C.C.E.D. Ark. affirmed Fischer v. City of St Louis 361 (1904) Brown none none Mo. affirmed United States ex rel. Holzendorf v. Hay 373 (1904) White none none D.C. Cir. dismissed Sun P. & P. Ass'n v. Edwards 377 (1904) White none none 2d Cir. certification Morris v. Hitchcock 384 (1904) White none none D.C. Cir. affirmed United States v. Anderson 394 (1904) White none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Hy-Yu-Tse-Mil-Kin v. Smith 401 (1904) Peckham none none 9th Cir. affirmed Hooker v. Burr 415 (1904) Peckham none none Cal. affirmed Cau v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. 427 (1904) McKenna none none 5th Cir. affirmed Charnock v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. 432 (1904) McKenna none none 5th Cir. affirmed Swarts v. Hammer 441 (1904) McKenna none none 8th Cir. affirmed Ohio ex rel. Lloyd v. Dollison 445 (1904) McKenna none none Ohio affirmed Davis v. Mills 451 (1904) Holmes none none 2d Cir. certification In re Christensen E. Co. 458 (1904) Fuller none none 2d Cir. mandamus granted Crowley v. United States 461 (1904) Harlan none none D.P.R. reversed Knepper v. Sands 476 (1904) Harlan none none 8th Cir. certification Binns v. United States 486 (1904) Brewer none none D. Alaska affirmed Wynn-Johnson v. Shoup 496 (1904) Brewer none none D. Alaska affirmed Public C. House v. Coyne 497 (1904) Brown none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed City of Cleveland v. Cleveland C. Ry. Co. 517 (1904) White none none C.C.N.D. Ohio affirmed City of Cleveland v. Cleveland E. Ry. Co. 538 (1904) White none none C.C.N.D. Ohio affirmed Dimmick v. Tompkins 540 (1904) Peckham none none C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed Shepard v. Barron 553 (1904) Peckham none none C.C.S.D. Ohio affirmed Burrell v. Montana 572 (1904) McKenna none none Mont. affirmed Terre Haute & I.R.R. Co. v. Indiana ex rel. Ketcham 579 (1904) Holmes none none Ind. reversed Chandler v. Dix 590 (1904) Holmes none none C.C.E.D. Mich. affirmed Shaw v. City of Covington593 (1904) Holmes none none C.C.E.D. Ky. affirmed International P.S. Co. v. Bruce 601 (1904) Holmes none Harlan 2d Cir. certification Field v. Barber A.P. Co. 618 (1904) Day none none C.C.W.D. Mo. multiple Rawson v. Western S.B. Co. 627 (1904) Harlan none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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