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This is a list of the 63 cases reported in volume 243 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1917.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 243 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 243 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)
	Willis Van Devanter	Associate Justice	Wyoming	Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice)	December 15, 1910 (Acclamation)	January 3, 1911 – June 2, 1937 (Retired)
	Mahlon Pitney	Associate Justice	New Jersey	John Marshall Harlan	March 13, 1912 (50–26)	March 18, 1912 – December 31, 1922 (Resigned)
	James Clark McReynolds	Associate Justice	Tennessee	Horace Harmon Lurton	August 29, 1914 (44–6)	October 12, 1914 – January 31, 1941 (Retired)
	Louis Brandeis	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Joseph Rucker Lamar	June 1, 1916 (47–22)	June 5, 1916 – February 13, 1939 (Retired)
	John Hessin Clarke	Associate Justice	Ohio	Charles Evans Hughes	July 24, 1916 (Acclamation)	October 9, 1916 – September 18, 1922 (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. 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.

• "# Cir." = United States Court of Appeals
  • e.g., "3d Cir." = United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• "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.,"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 243 U.S.

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition of case
Tyrrell v. District of Columbia	1 (1917)	White	none	none	D.C. Cir.	dismissed
Wellsville Oil Co. v. Miller	6 (1917)	White	none	none	Okla.	affirmed
Bond v. Hume	15 (1917)	White	none	none	5th Cir.	certified question answered
Union Nat'l Bank v. McBoyle	26 (1917)	White	none	none	Cal.	dismissed for want of jurisdiction
Bowersock v. Smith	29 (1917)	White	none	none	Kan.	affirmed
McCluskey v. Marysville & N.R.R. Co.	36 (1917)	White	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Bay v. Merrill & Ring Logging Co.	40 (1917)	White	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Raymond v. Chicago M. & S.P.R.R. Co.	43 (1917)	White	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
In re Selling	46 (1917)	White	none	none	Mich.	continued
New Mexico v. Lane	52 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	original jurisdiction	dismissed for want of jurisdiction
Donohue v. Vosper	59 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	Mich.	affirmed
Thomsen v. Cayser	66 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
McDonald v. Mabee	90 (1917)	Holmes	none	none]	Tex.	reversed
Pennsylvania Fire Ins. Co. v. Gold Issue M. & M. Co.	93 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Five Per Cent Discount Cases	97 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	Ct. Cust. App.	reversed
Gannon v. Johnston	108 (1917)	Day	none	none	Okla.	affirmed
Baker v. Schofield	114 (1917)	Day	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
William R. Staats Co. v. Security Tr. & Sav. Bank	121 (1917)	Day	none	none	9th Cir.	dismissed for want of jurisdiction
The Steamship Appam	124 (1917)	Day	none	none	E.D. Va.	affirmed
Enterprise Irrigation Dist. v. Farmers Mut. Canal Co.	157 (1917)	Van Devanter	none	none	Neb.	dismissed for want of jurisdiction
City of Owensboro v. Owensboro Water Works Co.	166 (1917)	Van Devanter	none	Clarke, Day	W.D. Ky.	affirmed
New York C.R.R. Co. v. White	188 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	N.Y.	affirmed
Hawkins v. Bleakly	210 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	S.D. Iowa	affirmed
Mountain Timber Co. v. Washington	219 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	Wash.	affirmed
Horn v. Mitchell	247 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	1st Cir.	dismissed for want of jurisdiction
Grays Harbor L. Co. v. Coats-Fordney L. Co.	251 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	Wash.	dismissed for want of jurisdiction
Rome Ry. & Light Co. v. Floyd Cnty.	257 (1917)	McReynolds	none	none	N.D. Ga.	affirmed
Philadelphia & Reading R.R. Co. v. McKibbin	264 (1917)	Brandeis	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Pennington v. Fourth Nat'l Bank	269 (1917)	Brandeis	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
Pease v. Rathbun-Jones Eng'g Co.	273 (1917)	Brandeis	none	none	5th Cir.	affirmed
Swift & Co. v. Hocking Valley R.R. Co.	281 (1917)	Brandeis	none	none	Ohio	affirmed
Lie v. San Francisco & P.S.S. Co.	291 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Memphis St. R.R. Co. v. Moore	299 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	6th Cir.	affirmed
McAllister v. Chesapeake & O.R.R. Co.	302 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	E.D. Ky.	reversed
St. Joseph & G.I.R.R. Co. v. Moore	311 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
United States v. Cress	316 (1917)	Pitney	none	none	E.D. Ky.	affirmed
Wilson v. New	332 (1917)	White	McKenna	Day, Pitney, McReynolds	W.D. Mo.	reversed
Utah Power & Light Co. v. United States	389 (1917)	Van Devanter	none	none	D. Utah	affirmed
Lehigh V.R.R. Co. v. United States	412 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	E.D. Pa.	affirmed
California v. Deseret Water, Oil & Irrigation Co.	415 (1917)	Day	none	none	Cal.	reversed
Chicago & A.R.R. Co. v. McWhirt	422 (1917)	Van Devanter	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Bunting v. Oregon	426 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	Or.	affirmed
United States v. Kenofskey	440 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	E.D. La.	reversed
Lehigh V.R.R. Co. v. United States	444 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Pullman Co. v. Knott	447 (1917)	Day	none	none	Fla.	dismissed
United States v. Waller	452 (1917)	Day	none	none	8th Cir.	certified question answered
United States v. Rowell	464 (1917)	Van Devanter	none	none	W.D. Okla.	reversed
United States v. Ginsberg	472 (1917)	McReynolds	none	none	8th Cir.	certified questions answered
United States v. Gradwell	476 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	D.R.I. & S.D.W. Va.	affirmed
Straus v. Victor Talking Mach. Co.	490 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Motion Picture Pats. Co. v. Universal Film Mfg. Co.	502 (1917)	Clarke	none	Holmes	2d Cir.	affirmed
Marshall v. Gordon	521 (1917)	White	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Oregon & C.R.R. Co. v. United States	549 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Hendersonville L. & P. Co. v. Blue Ridge I.R.R. Co.	563 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	N.C.	affirmed
United States v. Davis	570 (1917)	Holmes	none	none	D. Haw.	reversed
Seaboard Air Line R.R. Co. v. Lorick	572 (1917)	Brandeis	none	none	S.C.	affirmed
Pennsylvania R.R. Co. v. Olivit Bros.	574 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	N.J. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Pennsylvania R.R. Co. v. Carr	587 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	N.J. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Lott v. Pittman	588 (1917)	McKenna	none	none	S.D. Ga.	affirmed
St. Louis I.M. & S.R.R. Co. v. Starbird	592 (1917)	Day	none	none	Ark.	affirmed (part); reversed (part)
United States v. Morehead	607 (1917)	Brandeis	none	none	D. Mont.	reversed
Louisville & N.R.R. Co. v. Layton	617 (1917)	Clarke	none	none	Ga.	affirmed
Wyoming v. Colorado	622 (1917)	per curiam	none	none	original jurisdiction	set for re-argument

Notes and references

External links

• [1] Case reports in volume 243 from Library of Congress
• [2] Case reports in volume 243 from Court Listener
• [3] Case reports in volume 243 from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
• [4] Case reports in volume 243 from Google Scholar
• [5] Case reports in volume 243 from Justia
• [6] Case reports in volume 243 from Open Jurist
• Website of the United States Supreme Court
• United States Courts website about the Supreme Court
• National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States
• American Bar Association, How Does the Supreme Court Work?
• The Supreme Court Historical Society