This is a list of cases reported in volume 195 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 195 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 195 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 195 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Bradley v. Lightcap I 1 (1904) Fuller none none Ill. reversed Bradley v. Lightcap II24 (1904) Fuller none none Ill. reversed Bradley v. Lightcap III 25 (1904) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed McCray v. United States 27 (1904) White none none S.D. Ohio affirmed Schick v. United States 65 (1904) Brewer none Harlan N.D. Ill. affirmed Kepner v. United States 100 (1904) Day none Holmes, Brown Phil. reversed Dorr v. United States 138 (1904) Day Peckham Harlan Phil. affirmed Mendezona y Mendezona v. United States 158 (1904) Day none none Phil. reversed Cliff v. United States 159 (1904) Brewer none none N.D. Ill. affirmed Stevenson v. Fain 165 (1904) Fuller none none 6th Cir. dismissed Schweer v. Brown 171 (1904) Fuller none none E.D. Ark. dismissed Amado v. United States 172 (1904) Harlan none none D.P.R. dismissed Crawford v. Burke 176 (1904) Brown none none Ill. reversed Aikens v. Wisconsin 194 (1904) Holmes none White Wis. affirmed Thomas v. Ohio State University 207 (1904) Harlan none none 6th Cir. certification Wright v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company 219 (1904) Holmes none none 5th Cir. reversed Dobbins v. City of Los Angeles 223 (1904) Day none none Cal. reversed Daly v. Elton 242 (1904) Day none none Cal. reversed Bradford v. Southern Railway Company 243 (1904) Fuller none none 6th Cir. certification New v. Oklahoma 252 (1904) Fuller none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. dismissed National Exchange Bank of Tiffin v. Wiley 257 (1904) Harlan none none Neb. affirmed Kaufman v. Tredway 271 (1904) Brewer none none Pa. Super. Ct. reversed Fayerweather v. Ritch 276 (1904) Brewer none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Patterson v. Hewitt 309 (1904) Brown none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Metropolitan Railroad Company v. District of Columbia 322 (1904) White none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Olsen v. Smith 332 (1904) White none none Tex. Civ. App. affirmed Birkett v. Columbia Bank 345 (1904) McKenna none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed City of Seattle v. Kelleher 351 (1904) Holmes none none C.C.D. Wash. reversed The Blackheath 361 (1904) Holmes Brown none S.D. Ala. reversed Citizens' National Bank v. Donnell 369 (1904) Holmes none none Mo. affirmed Baltimore Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company v. City of Baltimore 375 (1904) Holmes none none Md. affirmed Helena Water Works Company v. City of Helena 383 (1904) Day none none 9th Cir. affirmed Hill v. McCord 395 (1904) Brewer none none Wis. affirmed Cramer v. Wilson 408 (1904) Brown none none Ill. affirmed United States v. Thomas 418 (1904) Brown none none Ct. Cl. reversed Lockhart v. Leeds 427 (1904) Peckham none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. reversed Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. American Trading Company 439 (1904) Peckham none none 2d Cir. affirmed United States v. Martinez 469 (1904) Day none White Ct. Cl. reversed Humbird v. Avery 480 (1904) Harlan none none 8th Cir. affirmed City of San Juan v. St John's Gas Company 510 (1904) White none none D.P.R. reversed United States v. Chicago, et al. Railway Company 524 (1904) Peckham none none 8th Cir. affirmed Western Union Telegraph Company v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company 540 (1904) McKenna Brewer Harlan 3d Cir. affirmed Ex parte Republic of Colombia 604 (1904) Holmes none none C.C.N.D.W. Va. mandamus denied Bullis v. O'Beirne 606 (1904) Day none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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