List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 229

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Supreme Court of the United States
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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 229
38°53′26″N77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
EstablishedMarch 4, 1789;235 years ago (1789-03-04)
Location Washington, D.C.
Coordinates 38°53′26″N77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
Composition methodPresidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorized by Constitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term lengthlife tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions9 (by statute)
Website supremecourt.gov

This is a list of cases reported in volume 229 of United States Reports , decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1913.

Contents

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 229 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). [1] 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 229 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

PortraitJusticeOfficeHome StateSucceededDate confirmed by the Senate
(Vote)
Tenure on Supreme Court
Edward White, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, 1905.jpg Edward Douglass White Chief Justice Louisiana Melville Fuller December 12, 1910
(Acclamation)
December 19, 1910

May 19, 1921
(Died)
Justice McKenna.jpg Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field January 21, 1898
(Acclamation)
January 26, 1898

January 5, 1925
(Retired)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr circa 1930-edit.jpg Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate Justice Massachusetts Horace Gray December 4, 1902
(Acclamation)
December 8, 1902

January 12, 1932
(Retired)
Justice William R. Day.jpg William R. Day Associate Justice Ohio George Shiras Jr. February 23, 1903
(Acclamation)
March 2, 1903

November 13, 1922
(Retired)
HoraceHarmonLurton.jpg Horace Harmon Lurton Associate Justice Tennessee Rufus W. Peckham December 20, 1909
(Acclamation)
January 3, 1910

July 12, 1914
(Died)
Charles Evans Hughes cph.3b15401.jpg Charles Evans Hughes Associate Justice New York David Josiah Brewer May 2, 1910
(Acclamation)
October 10, 1910

June 10, 1916
(Resigned)
Willis Van Devanter.jpg Willis Van Devanter Associate Justice Wyoming Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice)December 15, 1910
(Acclamation)
January 3, 1911

June 2, 1937
(Retired)
Joseph Lamar.jpg Joseph Rucker Lamar Associate Justice Georgia William Henry Moody December 15, 1910
(Acclamation)
January 3, 1911

January 2, 1916
(Died)
Mahlon Pitney cph.3b30300.jpg Mahlon Pitney Associate Justice New Jersey John Marshall Harlan March 13, 1912
(50–26)
March 18, 1912

December 31, 1922
(Resigned)

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.

On January 1, 1912, the effective date of the Judicial Code of 1911, the old Circuit Courts were abolished, with their remaining trial court jurisdiction transferred to the U.S. District Courts.

Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.

List of cases in volume 229 U.S.

Case NamePage and yearOpinion of the CourtConcurring opinion(s)Dissenting opinion(s)Lower CourtDisposition
Bauer and Cie v. O'Donnell 1 (1913) Daynonenone D.C. Cir. certification
Gorman v. Littlefield 19 (1913) Daynonenone 2d Cir. reversed
Barrett v. Indiana 26 (1913) Daynonenone Ind. affirmed
Big Vein Coal Company of West Virginia v. Read 31 (1913) Daynonenone C.C.N.D.W. Va. affirmed
Detroit United Railway Company v. City of Detroit 39 (1913) Daynonenone Mich. affirmed
Barry v. United States 47 (1913) Lurtonnonenone Ct. Cl. affirmed
United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Company 53 (1913) Lurtonnonenone W.D. Mich. reversed
Lewis Blue Point Oyster Cultivation Company v. Briggs 82 (1913) Lurtonnonenone N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed
Shelton v. King 90 (1913) Lurtonnonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Dowell 102 (1913) Lurtonnonenone Kan. affirmed
Norfolk and Western Railway Company v. Earnest 114 (1913) VanDevanternonenone C.C.W.D. Va. affirmed
City and County of Denver v. New York Trust Company 123 (1913) VanDevanternonenone 8th Cir. reversed
Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company 146 (1913) VanDevanternoneLamar 3d Cir. reversed
St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway Company v. Seale 156 (1913) VanDevanternonenone Tex. Civ. App. reversed
Degge v. Hitchcock 162 (1913) Lamarnonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
Mackay v. Uinta Development Company 173 (1913) Lamarnonenone 8th Cir. certification
Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Prater 177 (1913) Lamarnonenone 5th Cir. affirmed
First National Bank v. Keys 179 (1913) Lamarnonenone Okla. affirmed
Swigart v. Baker 187 (1913) Lamarnonenone 9th Cir. reversed
Dill v. Ebey 199 (1913) Pitneynonenone Okla. dismissed
Morse v. United States 208 (1913) Pitneynonenone Ct. Cl. affirmed
Citizens National Bank v. Davisson 212 (1913) Pitneynonenone N.M. affirmed
United States v. Wright 226 (1913) Pitneynonenone E.D. Okla. reversed
United States v. Shelley 239 (1913) Pitneynonenone S.D.N.Y. affirmed
United States v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 244 (1913) Whitenonenone C.C.N.D.W. Va. affirmed
Robertson v. Howard 254 (1913) Whitenonenone Kan. reversed
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company v. McWhirter 265 (1913) WhitenonePitney Ky. reversed
Lewis Publishing Company v. Morgan 288 (1913) Whitenonenone S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Brown 317 (1913) McKennanonenone 7th Cir. affirmed
Citizens' Telephone Company v. Fuller I 322 (1913) McKennanonenone C.C.W.D. Mich. affirmed
Citizens' Telephone Company v. Fuller II 335 (1913) McKennanonenone C.C.W.D. Mich. affirmed
Louisiana Railroad Commission v. Texas and Pacific Railroad Company 336 (1913) McKennanonenone 5th Cir. affirmed
Wheeler v. City and County of Denver 342 (1913) McKennanonenone C.C.D. Colo. reversed
Adams v. Russell 353 (1913) McKennanonenone Mich. dismissed
McGovern v. City of New York 363 (1913) Holmesnonenone N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed
Nash v. United States 373 (1913) Holmesnonenone 5th Cir. reversed
United States v. Adams Exchange Company 381 (1913) Holmesnonenone S.D. Ohio reversed
National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company v. Hibbs 391 (1913) Daynonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
Portland Railway Light and Power Company v. Railroad Commission of Oregon I 397 (1913) Daynonenone Or. affirmed
Portland Railway Light and Power Company v. Railroad Commission of Oregon II 414 (1913) Daynonenone Or. affirmed
MacLeod v. United States 416 (1913) Daynonenone Ct. Cl. reversed
Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank v. Chicago Title & Trust Company 435 (1913) Daynonenone 7th Cir. reversed
Charlton v. Kelly, Sheriff of Hudson County, New Jersey 447 (1913) Lurtonnonenone C.C.D.N.J. affirmed
Paducah v. East Tennessee Telephone Company 476 (1913) Lurtonnonenone C.C.W.D. Ky. dismissed
Singer Sewing Machine Company v. Benedict 481 (1913) VanDevanternonenone 8th Cir. affirmed
Bond v. Unknown Heirs of Barela 488 (1913) VanDevanternonenone N.M. affirmed
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers v. Parrish 494 (1913) VanDevanternonenone 6th Cir. affirmed
United States v. Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians 498 (1913) VanDevanternonenone Ct. Cl. reversed
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Hall 511 (1913) Lamarnonenone Neb. affirmed
American National Bank of Nashville v. Miller 517 (1913) Lamarnonenone 6th Cir. affirmed
Studley v. Boylston National Bank 523 (1913) Lamarnonenone 1st Cir. affirmed
Camp v. Boyd 530 (1913) Pitneynonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
Campbell v. Northwest Eckington Improvement Company 561 (1913) Pitneynonenone D.C. Cir. reversed
Lem Woon v. Oregon 586 (1913) Pitneynonenone Or. affirmed
Wilkinson v. McKimmie 590 (1913) Pitneynonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed
District of Columbia v. Petty 593 (1913) Pitneynonenone D.C. Cir. affirmed

Notes and references

    1. "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.