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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 229

Coordinates: 38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
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Supreme Court of the United States
Map
38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
EstablishedMarch 4, 1789; 235 years ago (1789-03-04)
LocationWashington, D.C.
Coordinates38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
Composition methodPresidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorised byConstitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term lengthlife tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions9 (by statute)
Websitesupremecourt.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.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 229 U.S.

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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:

Portrait Justice Office Home State Succeeded Date confirmed by the Senate
(Vote)
Tenure on Supreme Court
Edward Douglass White Chief Justice Louisiana Melville Fuller December 12, 1910
(Acclamation)
December 19, 1910

May 19, 1921
(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)
Horace Harmon Lurton Associate Justice Tennessee Rufus W. Peckham December 20, 1909
(Acclamation)
January 3, 1910

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

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

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

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

December 31, 1922
(Resigned)

Citation style

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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.

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Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition
Bauer and Cie v. O'Donnell 1 (1913) Day none none D.C. Cir. certification
Gorman v. Littlefield 19 (1913) Day none none 2d Cir. reversed
Barrett v. Indiana 26 (1913) Day none none Ind. affirmed
Big Vein Coal Company of West Virginia v. Read 31 (1913) Day none none C.C.N.D.W. Va. affirmed
Detroit United Railway Company v. City of Detroit 39 (1913) Day none none Mich. affirmed
Barry v. United States 47 (1913) Lurton none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Company 53 (1913) Lurton none none W.D. Mich. reversed
Lewis Blue Point Oyster Cultivation Company v. Briggs 82 (1913) Lurton none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed
Shelton v. King 90 (1913) Lurton none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Dowell 102 (1913) Lurton none none Kan. affirmed
Norfolk and Western Railway Company v. Earnest 114 (1913) VanDevanter none none C.C.W.D. Va. affirmed
City and County of Denver v. New York Trust Company 123 (1913) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. reversed
Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company 146 (1913) VanDevanter none Lamar 3d Cir. reversed
St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway Company v. Seale 156 (1913) VanDevanter none none Tex. Civ. App. reversed
Degge v. Hitchcock 162 (1913) Lamar none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Mackay v. Uinta Development Company 173 (1913) Lamar none none 8th Cir. certification
Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Prater 177 (1913) Lamar none none 5th Cir. affirmed
First National Bank v. Keys 179 (1913) Lamar none none Okla. affirmed
Swigart v. Baker 187 (1913) Lamar none none 9th Cir. reversed
Dill v. Ebey 199 (1913) Pitney none none Okla. dismissed
Morse v. United States 208 (1913) Pitney none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Citizens National Bank v. Davisson 212 (1913) Pitney none none N.M. affirmed
United States v. Wright 226 (1913) Pitney none none E.D. Okla. reversed
United States v. Shelley 239 (1913) Pitney none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed
United States v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 244 (1913) White none none C.C.N.D.W. Va. affirmed
Robertson v. Howard 254 (1913) White none none Kan. reversed
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company v. McWhirter 265 (1913) White none Pitney Ky. reversed
Lewis Publishing Company v. Morgan 288 (1913) White none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Brown 317 (1913) McKenna none none 7th Cir. affirmed
Citizens' Telephone Company v. Fuller I 322 (1913) McKenna none none C.C.W.D. Mich. affirmed
Citizens' Telephone Company v. Fuller II 335 (1913) McKenna none none C.C.W.D. Mich. affirmed
Louisiana Railroad Commission v. Texas and Pacific Railroad Company 336 (1913) McKenna none none 5th Cir. affirmed
Wheeler v. City and County of Denver 342 (1913) McKenna none none C.C.D. Colo. reversed
Adams v. Russell 353 (1913) McKenna none none Mich. dismissed
McGovern v. City of New York 363 (1913) Holmes none none N.Y. Sup. Ct. affirmed
Nash v. United States 373 (1913) Holmes none none 5th Cir. reversed
United States v. Adams Exchange Company 381 (1913) Holmes none none S.D. Ohio reversed
National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company v. Hibbs 391 (1913) Day none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Portland Railway Light and Power Company v. Railroad Commission of Oregon I 397 (1913) Day none none Or. affirmed
Portland Railway Light and Power Company v. Railroad Commission of Oregon II 414 (1913) Day none none Or. affirmed
MacLeod v. United States 416 (1913) Day none none Ct. Cl. reversed
Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank v. Chicago Title & Trust Company 435 (1913) Day none none 7th Cir. reversed
Charlton v. Kelly, Sheriff of Hudson County, New Jersey 447 (1913) Lurton none none C.C.D.N.J. affirmed
Paducah v. East Tennessee Telephone Company 476 (1913) Lurton none none C.C.W.D. Ky. dismissed
Singer Sewing Machine Company v. Benedict 481 (1913) VanDevanter none none 8th Cir. affirmed
Bond v. Unknown Heirs of Barela 488 (1913) VanDevanter none none N.M. affirmed
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers v. Parrish 494 (1913) VanDevanter none none 6th Cir. affirmed
United States v. Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians 498 (1913) VanDevanter none none Ct. Cl. reversed
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Hall 511 (1913) Lamar none none Neb. affirmed
American National Bank of Nashville v. Miller 517 (1913) Lamar none none 6th Cir. affirmed
Studley v. Boylston National Bank 523 (1913) Lamar none none 1st Cir. affirmed
Camp v. Boyd 530 (1913) Pitney none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Campbell v. Northwest Eckington Improvement Company 561 (1913) Pitney none none D.C. Cir. reversed
Lem Woon v. Oregon 586 (1913) Pitney none none Or. affirmed
Wilkinson v. McKimmie 590 (1913) Pitney none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
District of Columbia v. Petty 593 (1913) Pitney none none D.C. Cir. affirmed

Notes and references

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