This is a list of cases reported in volume 81 (14 Wall.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1872, along with a case from 1870 and a case from 1871.Anne Ashmore, DATES OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND ARGUMENTS, Library, Supreme Court of the United States, 26 December 2018.

Nominative reports In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called "nominative reports").

John William Wallace Starting with the 66th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was John William Wallace. Wallace was Reporter of Decisions from 1863 to 1874, covering volumes 68 through 90 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 23 of his Wallace's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Christmas v. Russell is 81 U.S. (14 Wall.) 69 (1872).

Wallace's Reports were the final nominative reports for the US Supreme Court; starting with volume 91, cases were identified simply as "(volume #) U.S. (page #) (year)".

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 81 U.S. (14 Wall.)

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 81 U.S. (14 Wall.) were decided the Court comprised these nine members:

Justices during at least part of the Court session reported in 81 U.S. (14 Wall.) Portrait Justice Office Home State Succeeded Date confirmed by the Senate(Vote) Tenure on Supreme Court Salmon P. Chase Chief Justice Ohio Roger B. Taney (Acclamation) –May 7, 1873(Died) Samuel Nelson Associate Justice New York Smith Thompson (Acclamation) –November 28, 1872(Retired) Nathan Clifford Associate Justice Maine Benjamin Robbins Curtis (26–23) –July 25, 1881(Died) Noah Haynes Swayne Associate Justice Ohio John McLean (38–1) –January 24, 1881(Retired) Samuel Freeman Miller Associate Justice Iowa Peter Vivian Daniel (Acclamation) –October 13, 1890(Died) David Davis Associate Justice Illinois John Archibald Campbell (Acclamation) –March 4, 1877(Resigned) Stephen Johnson Field Associate Justice California newly created seat (Acclamation)–December 1, 1897(Retired) William Strong Associate Justice Pennsylvania Robert Cooper Grier (No vote recorded) –December 14, 1880(Retired) Joseph P. Bradley Associate Justice New Jersey newly created seat (46–9) –January 22, 1892(Died)

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.

Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions. "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 81 U.S. (14 Wall.)

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition United States v. Crusell1 (1872) Chase none Davis Ct. Cl. affirmed Cockroft v. Vose5 (1872) Miller none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed Bank of W. Tenn. v. Citizens' Bank9 (1872) Swayne none none La. dismissed Palmer v. Marston10 (1872) Swayne none none La. dismissed Sevier v. Haskell12 (1872) Swayne none none Ark. dismissed Steines v. Franklin Cnty.15 (1872) Clifford none none Mo. dismissed Kennebec & P.R.R. v. Portland & K.R.R.23 (1872) Miller none none Me. dismissed Bartemeyer v. Iowa26 (1872) Miller none Swayne Iowa dismissed Ward v. United States28 (1872) Miller none Bradley C.C.D. Mich. reversed Henderson's D.S.44 (1872) Clifford none Field C.C.E.D. Mo. reversed Christmas v. Russell69 (1872) Swayne none none C.C.S.D. Miss. reversed Hurley v. Street85 (1872) Chase none none Iowa dismissed Traders' Nat'l Bank v. Campbell87 (1872) Miller none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed The Thames98 (1872) Strong none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Mahan v. United States109 (1872) Miller none none Ct. Cl. remand denied Foulke v. Zimmerman113 (1872) Miller none none C.C.D. La. affirmed The Bridgeport116 (1872) Bradley none none C.C.E.D.N.Y. affirmed Armstrong v. Morrill120 (1872) Clifford none Strong D.W. Va. affirmed Ex parte Newman152 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.E.D.N.Y. mandamus denied The Scotia170 (1872) Strong none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed The Java189 (1872) Bradley none none C.C.D. Mass. reversed The Merrimac199 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.D. La. affirmed The Mabey204 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.E.D.N.Y. affirmed Caperton v. Bowyer216 (1872) Clifford none none W. Va. dismissed Caperton v. Ballard238 (1872) Davis none none W. Va. dismissed Gibson v. Warden244 (1872) Swayne none none C.C.S.D. Ohio reversed Hook v. Payne252 (1872) Miller none none C.C.D. Mo. multiple The Vaughan258 (1872) Swayne none Chase C.C.D.N.Y. affirmed The Cayuga270 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.D.N.Y. affirmed Easley v. Kellom279 (1872) Bradley none none C.C.D. Neb. affirmed City of Lexington v. Butler282 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.D. Ky. affirmed Bigler v. Waller297 (1872) Strong none none C.C.D. Va. reversed Dent v. Emmeger308 (1872) Swayne none none C.C.D. Mo. affirmed French v. Shoemaker314 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.D. Va. affirmed The Laura336 (1872) Miller none none C.C.D. La. affirmed The Continental345 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.D. Conn. reversed Pugh v. McCormick361 (1872) Clifford none none La. affirmed Insurance Cos. v. Weides375 (1872) Strong none none C.C.D. Minn. affirmed First Nat'l Bank v. Pahquioque Bank383 (1872) Clifford none none Conn. affirmed O'Dowd v. Russell402 (1872) Chase none none Ga. dismissal denied The Steamer Webb406 (1872) Strong none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. affirmed Smith v. Mason's Assignee419 (1871) Clifford none none Sup. Ct. D.C. reversed Mowry v. Whitney434 (1872) Miller none none C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed Schuylkill & D.I. Co. v. Munson442 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.E.D. Pa. affirmed Nicolson P. Co. v. Jenkins452 (1872) Davis none none C.C.D. Cal. reversed United States v. Ballard457 (1872) Chase none none C.C.N.D. Ohio affirmed Black v. Curran463 (1872) Davis none none C.C.D. Ill. affirmed Dolton v. Cain472 (1872) Davis none none C.C.S.D. Ill. affirmed Cross v. United States479 (1872) Davis none none Ct. Cl. reversed Dirst v. Morris484 (1872) Bradley none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Collins v. Riggs491(1872) Bradley none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed United States v. Powell493 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.M.D. Tenn. reversed Phoenix Ins. Co. v. Hamilton504 (1872) Bradley none none C.C.N.D. Ohio affirmed Gorham Co. v. White511 (1872) Strong none none C.C.S.D.N.Y. reversed Morgan v. United States531 (1872) Davis none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States v. Justice535 (1872) Davis none none Ct. Cl. reversed United States v. Hunt550 (1872) Chase none none Ct. Cl. reversed Turner v. Smith553 (1872) Miller none none Va. reversed Gregg v. Moss564 (1872) Miller none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed Philpot v. Gruninger570 (1872) Strong none none C.C.N.D. Ill. affirmed The Delaware579 (1872) Clifford none none C.C.D. Cal. affirmed Leary v. United States607 (1872) Field none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Erskine v. Hohnbach613 (1872) Field none none C.C.E.D. Wis. affirmed Mowry v. Whitney620 (1872) Strong none none C.C.S.D. Ohio reversed The Key City653 (1872) Miller none none C.C.E.D. Wis. reversed Delmas v. Merchants' Ins. Co.661 (1872) Miller none none La. reversed New Bedford et al. Co. v. United States670 (1872) Strong none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Willard v. Presbury676 (1870) Nelson none none Sup. Ct. D.C. reversed

Notes and references

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