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List Of United States Supreme Court Cases, Volume 206

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 July 20, 1888
(41–20)
October 8, 1888

July 4, 1910
(Died)
John Marshall Harlan Associate Justice Kentucky David Davis November 29, 1877
(Acclamation)
December 10, 1877

October 14, 1911
(Died)
David Josiah Brewer Associate Justice Kansas Stanley Matthews December 18, 1889
(53–11)
January 6, 1890

March 28, 1910
(Died)
Edward Douglass White Associate Justice Louisiana Samuel Blatchford February 19, 1894
(Acclamation)
March 12, 1894

December 18, 1910
(Continued as chief justice)
Rufus W. Peckham Associate Justice New York Howell Edmunds Jackson December 9, 1895
(Acclamation)
January 6, 1896

October 24, 1909
(Died)
Joseph McKenna Associate Justice California Stephen Johnson Field January 21, 1898
(Acclamation)
January 26, 1898

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

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

November 13, 1922
(Retired)
William Henry Moody Associate Justice Massachusetts Henry Billings Brown December 12, 1906
(Acclamation)
December 17, 1906

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.

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 Bank 28 (1907) Fuller none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Chapman et al. Co. v. Bigelow 41 (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 I 129 (1907) Brewer none none Ky. reversed
Adams E. Co. v. Kentucky II 138 (1907) Brewer none none Ky. reversed
American Express Co. v. Kentucky 139 (1907) Brewer none Harlan Ky. reversed
Cincinnati et al. R.R. Co. v. ICC 142 (1907) White none none C.C.S.D. Ohio affirmed
Yates v. Jones Nat'l Bank 158 (1907) White none none Neb. multiple
Yates v. Utica Bank 181 (1907) White none none Neb. reversed
Stewart v. United States 185 (1907) Peckham none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Goat & S.I. Co. v. United States 194 (1907) Peckham none none 2d Cir. reversed
Lowrey v. Hawaii 206 (1907) McKenna none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. reversed
H.E. Frankenberg Co. v. United States 224 (1907) McKenna none none 2d Cir. affirmed
United States v. Farenholt 226 (1907) McKenna none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Georgia v. Tennessee C. Co. 230 (1907) Holmes Harlan none original injunction issued
United States v. Brown 240 (1907) Holmes none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Ellis v. United States 246 (1907) Holmes none Moody D. Mass. multiple
Stone v. Southern I. & M.B. Co. 267 (1907) Day none none Mo. affirmed
Smith v. Jennings 276 (1907) Moody none none S.C. dismissed
Wyoming ex rel. Wyoming A. Coll. v. Irvine 278 (1907) Moody none none Wyo. affirmed
Kessler v. Eldred 285 (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 States 333 (1907) Harlan none none Phil. reversed
Love v. Flahive 356 (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. Beach 392 (1907) Peckham none Day Ind. reversed
Security W. Co. v. Hand 415 (1907) Peckham none none 7th Cir. affirmed
Southern R.R. Co. v. Tift 428 (1907) McKenna none none 5th Cir. affirmed
Illinois C.R.R. Co. v. ICC 441 (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. Blumer 482 (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. Converse 516 (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

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

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