This is a list of cases reported in volume 206 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 206 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 206 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 206 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Atlantic et al. R.R. Co. v. North Carolina Corp. Comm'n 1 (1907) White none none N.C. affirmed Hiscock v. Varick Bank28 (1907) Fuller none none 2d Cir. affirmed Chapman et al. Co. v. Bigelow41 (1907) Fuller none none Ark. dismissed Kansas v. Colorado 46 (1907) Brewer none none original dismissed United States v. Cramp et al. Co. 118 (1907) Brewer none none Ct. Cl. reversed Adams E. Co. v. Kentucky I129 (1907) Brewer none none Ky. reversed Adams E. Co. v. Kentucky II138 (1907) Brewer none none Ky. reversed American Express Co. v. Kentucky139 (1907) Brewer none Harlan Ky. reversed Cincinnati et al. R.R. Co. v. ICC142 (1907) White none none C.C.S.D. Ohio affirmed Yates v. Jones Nat'l Bank158 (1907) White none none Neb. multiple Yates v. Utica Bank181 (1907) White none none Neb. reversed Stewart v. United States185 (1907) Peckham none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Goat & S.I. Co. v. United States194 (1907) Peckham none none 2d Cir. reversed Lowrey v. Hawaii206 (1907) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. reversed H.E. Frankenberg Co. v. United States224 (1907) McKenna none none 2d Cir. affirmed United States v. Farenholt226 (1907) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Georgia v. Tennessee C. Co.230 (1907) Holmes Harlan none original injunction issued United States v. Brown240 (1907) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Ellis v. United States246 (1907) Holmes none Moody D. Mass. multiple Stone v. Southern I. & M.B. Co.267 (1907) Day none none Mo. affirmed Smith v. Jennings276 (1907) Moody none none S.C. dismissed Wyoming ex rel. Wyoming A. Coll. v. Irvine 278 (1907) Moody none none Wyo. affirmed Kessler v. Eldred285 (1907) Moody none none 7th Cir. certification Virginia v. West Virginia 290 (1907) Fuller none none original demurrer overruled In re Pollitz 323 (1907) Fuller none none C.C.E.D. Mo. mandamus denied Grafton v. United States333 (1907) Harlan none none Phil. reversed Love v. Flahive356 (1907) Brewer none none Mont. rehearing denied Romeu v. Todd 358 (1907) White none none D.P.R. reversed United States v. Heinszen & Co. 370 (1907) White Harlan none Ct. Cl. reversed Buck v. Beach392 (1907) Peckham none Day Ind. reversed Security W. Co. v. Hand415 (1907) Peckham none none 7th Cir. affirmed Southern R.R. Co. v. Tift428 (1907) McKenna none none 5th Cir. affirmed Illinois C.R.R. Co. v. ICC441 (1907) McKenna none none C.C.E.D. La. affirmed United States v. Paine L. Co. 467 (1907) McKenna none none C.C.E.D. Wis. affirmed Copper Queen C.M. Co. v. Territorial Bd. 474 (1907) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed Iowa R.R.L. Co. v. Blumer482 (1907) Day none none Iowa affirmed City of Vicksburg v. Vicksburg W. Co.496 (1907) Day none none C.C.S.D. Miss. affirmed Bernheimer v. Converse516 (1907) Day none Holmes C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Sauer v. City of New York 536 (1907) Moody none McKenna N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed

Notes and references

See also Certificate of division

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