This is a list of cases reported in volume 204 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1907.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 204 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 204 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) 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) William Henry Moody Associate Justice Massachusetts Henry Billings Brown (Acclamation) –November 20, 1910(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 204 U.S.

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Jerome v. Cogswell1 (1907) Fuller none none Conn. affirmed Old Wayne Mutual Life Association of Indianapolis v. McDonough8 (1907) Harlan none none Ind. reversed Wilson v. Shaw24 (1907) Brewer none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Bachtel v. Wilson I36 (1907) Brewer none none Ohio dismissed Bachtel v. Wilson II42 (1907) Brewer none none Ohio dismissed Kann v. King43 (1907) White none none D.C. Cir. reversed Garrozi v. Dastas 64 (1907) White none none D.P.R. reversed Elder v. Colorado ex rel. Badgley85 (1907) White none none Colo. dismissed Newman v. Gates89 (1907) White none none Ind. dismissed Orcutt Company v. Green96 (1907) Peckham none none 2d Cir. reversed American Smelting and Refining Company v. Colorado ex rel. Lindsley103 (1907) Peckham none none Colo. reversed Cleveland Electric Railroad Company v. City of Cleveland116 (1907) Peckham none none C.C.N.D. Ohio affirmed United States v. G. Falk and Brother143 (1907) McKenna none none 2d Cir. reversed New York ex rel. Hatch v. Reardon 152 (1907) Holmes none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed Ohio v. National Bank v. Hulitt162 (1907) Day none none 6th Cir. affirmed Zartarian v. Billings170 (1907) Day none none C.C.D. Mass. affirmed Wecker v. National Enameling and Stamping Company176 (1907) Day none none C.C.E.D. Mo. affirmed Shropshire, Woodliff and Company v. Bush186 (1907) Moody none none 6th Cir. certification Northern Lumber Company v. O'Brien 190 (1907) Harlan none none 8th Cir. affirmed Montana Mining Company v. St. Louis Mining and Milling Company 204 (1907) Brewer none none 9th Cir. reversed Erie Railroad Company v. Erie and Western Transport Company220 (1907) Holmes none none 7th Cir. reversed Crowe v. Trickey228 (1907) Fuller none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed Crowe v. Harmon 241 (1907) Fuller none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed Ballard v. Hunter241 (1907) McKenna none none Ark. affirmed East Central Eureka Mining Company v. Central Eureka Mining Company266 (1907) Holmes none none Cal. affirmed Armstrong v. Ashley272 (1907) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Merchants' Heat and Light Company v. Clow and Sons286 (1907) Holmes none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Montana ex rel. Haire v. Rice291 (1907) Moody none none Mont. affirmed Walker v. McLoud302 (1907) Peckham none none 8th Cir. affirmed Bacon v. Walker 311 (1907) McKenna none none Idaho affirmed Bown v. Walling320 (1907) McKenna none none Colo. affirmed City of Chicago v. Mills321 (1907) Day none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Kansas v. United States331 (1907) Fuller none none original dismissed United States v. Hite343 (1907) Fuller none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. United States ex rel. Kenyon349 (1907) Harlan none none C.C.D.R.I. affirmed Western Turf Association v. Greenberg359 (1907) Harlan none none Cal. affirmed Union Bridge Company v. United States364 (1907) Harlan none none C.C.W.D. Pa. affirmed Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Texas403 (1907) Brewer none none Tex. affirmed Wallace v. Adams415 (1907) Brewer none none 8th Cir. affirmed Texas and Pacific Railroad Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company426 (1907) White none none Tex. Civ. App. reversed Texas and Pacific Railroad Company v. Cisco Oil Mill449 (1907) White none none Tex. Civ. App. reversed American Railroad Company v. Castro453 (1907) White none none D.P.R. dismissed McKay v. Kalyton458 (1907) White none none Or. reversed Serra v. Mortiga470 (1907) White none none Phil. affirmed Iglehart v. Iglehart478 (1907) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. affirmed McGuire v. Gerstley489 (1907) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Clark v. Gerstley504 (1907) Peckham none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Arthur v. Texas and Pacific Railroad Company505 (1907) Peckham none none 8th Cir. reversed Eau Claire National Bank v. Jackman522 (1907) McKenna none none Wis. affirmed Hammond v. Whittredge 538 (1907) McKenna none none Mass. affirmed Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Smith, Huggins and Company 551 (1907) McKenna none none Tenn. dismissed United States v. Keatley562 (1907) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Osborne v. Clark 565 (1907) Holmes none none Tenn. dismissed Mason City and Fort Dodge Railroad Company v. Boynton 570 (1907) Holmes none none 8th Cir. certification Allen v. United States581 (1907) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Babcock585 (1907) Holmes none none C.C.D. Neb. affirmed Doyle v. London Guarantee and Accident Company, Ltd. 599 (1907) Day none none 3d Cir. certification Computing Scale Company of America v. Automatic Scale Company609 (1907) Day none none D.C. Cir. affirmed Duke v. Turner623 (1907) Day none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. affirmed Smithers v. Smith632 (1907) Moody none none C.C.N.D. Tex. reversed Cunningham v. Springer647 (1907) Moody none none Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. affirmed Coffey v. Harlan County659 (1907) Moody none none C.C.D. Neb. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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