This is a list of cases reported in volume 199 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1905.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 199 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 199 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 199 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition People ex rel. Metropolitan Street Railway Company v. New York State Board of Tax Commissioners1 (1905) Brewer none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed People ex rel. Brooklyn City Railroad v. New York State Board of Tax Commissioners 48 (1905) Brewer none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed People ex rel. Twenty-Third Street Railway Company v. New York State Board of Tax Commissioners 53 (1905) Brewer none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Gleason v. White 54 (1905) Brewer none none Fla. affirmed Hyde v. Shine 62 (1905) Brown none Peckham C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed Dimond v. Shine 88 (1905) per curiam none none C.C.N.D. Cal. affirmed Farrell v. O'Brien 89 (1905) White none none 9th Cir. affirmed The Eliza Lines119 (1905) Holmes none Brown 1st Cir. reversed McGuire v. Blount 142 (1905) Day none none 5th Cir. affirmed Guthrie v. Harkness 148 (1905) Day none none Utah affirmed Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Mason City and Fort Dodge Railroad Company 160 (1905) Brewer none none 8th Cir. affirmed Nederland Life Insurance Company, Ltd. v. Meinert 171 (1905) Peckham none none 7th Cir. reversed Corkran Oil and Development Company v. Arnaudet 182 (1905) Fuller none none La. dismissed Union Refrigerator Transit Co. v. Kentucky 194 (1905) Brown none Holmes Ky. reversed Marvin v. Trout 212 (1905) Peckham none none Ohio affirmed Rankin v. Barton 228 (1905) McKenna none none Kan. reversed Michigan ex rel. Kies v. Lowrey 233 (1905) McKenna none none Mich. affirmed Tampa Water Works Company v. City of Tampa 241 (1905) Holmes none Brown Fla. affirmed Chesapeake Beach Railway Company v. Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railroad Company 247 (1905) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Sweeney v. Carter Oil Company 252 (1905) Fuller none none C.C.N.D.W. Va. reversed Cochran v. Montgomery County 260 (1905) Fuller none none 5th Cir. reversed French v. Taylor 274 (1905) Fuller none none Wash. dismissed Donovan v. Pennsylvania Company 279 (1905) Harlan none none 7th Cir. affirmed California Reduction Company v. Sanitary Reduction Works 306 (1905) Harlan none none 9th Cir. affirmed Gardner v. Michigan 325 (1905) Harlan none none Mich. affirmed Hartman v. Butterfield Lumber Company 335 (1905) Brewer none White Miss. affirmed Hafemann v. Gross 342 (1905) Brewer none White Minn. affirmed Royal Insurance Company v. Miller 353 (1905) White none none D.P.R. affirmed Jack v. Kansas 372 (1905) Peckham none none Kan. affirmed McCune v. Essig 382 (1905) McKenna none none 9th Cir. affirmed Estes v. Timmons 391 (1905) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed Simpson v. United States 397 (1905) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Carroll v. Greenwich Insurance Company 401 (1905) Holmes Harlan none C.C.S.D. Iowa reversed United States v. Utah, Nevada and California Stage Company 414 (1905) Day none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Rogers v. Peck 425 (1905) Day none none D. Vt. affirmed South Carolina v. United States 437 (1905) Brewer none White Ct. Cl. affirmed Manigault v. Springs 473 (1905) Brown none none C.C.D.S.C. affirmed Petri v. Creelman Lumber Company 487 (1905) White none none C.C.N.D. Ill. reversed Foppiano v. Speed 501 (1905) Peckham none none Tenn. affirmed Trono v. United States 521 (1905) Peckham none Harlan; McKenna Phil. affirmed Clark v. Roller 541 (1905) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Riggins v. United States 547 (1905) Fuller none none C.C.N.D. Ala. reversed People ex rel. Lieberman v. Van de Carr 552 (1905) Day Holmes none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Sjoli v. Dreschel 564 (1905) Harlan none none Minn. reversed Russian America Packing Company v. United States 570 (1905) Brown none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Royal Packing Company v. United States 579 (1905) per curiam none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Alexander v. Crollott 580 (1905) Brown none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Eclipse Bicycle Company v. Farrow 581 (1905) Holmes none none D.C. Cir. reversed Minnesota Iron Company v. Kline 593 (1905) Holmes none none Minn. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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