This is a list of the 39 cases reported in volume 213 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1909.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 213 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 213 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 Weston Fuller Chief Justice 1908.jpg Melville Fuller Chief Justice Illinois Morrison Waite July 20, 1888
(41–20)
October 8, 1888

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

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

March 28, 1910
(Died)
Edward White, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, 1905.jpg Edward Douglass White Associate Justice Louisiana Samuel Blatchford February 19, 1894
(Acclamation)
March 12, 1894

December 18, 1910
(Continued as chief justice)
Rufus Wheeler Peckham cph.3b30513.jpg 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 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)
WHMoody.jpg 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 213 U.S.

Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition of case
Atchison, T. & S.F. Ry. Co. v. Calhoun 1 (1909) Moody none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. reversed
Davidson Bros. Marble Co. v. United States ex rel. Gibson 10 (1909) Moody none none C.C.N.D. Cal. reversed
Martinez v. La Asociacion de Senoras Damas 20 (1909) Moody none none D.P.R. reversed
Equitable Life Assur. Soc'y v. Brown 25 (1909) Peckham none none 2d Cir. reversed
Western Union Tel. Co. v. Wilson 52 (1909) Holmes none none Va. Corp. Ct. dismissed
Atchison, T. & S.F. Ry. Co. v. Sowers 55 (1909) Day none Holmes Tex. Ct. App. affirmed
Mammoth Mining Co. v. Grand Cent. Mining Co. 72 (1909) Holmes none none Utah dismissed for want of jurisdiction
Missouri v. Kansas 78 (1909) Holmes none none original jurisdiction decree for Kansas
Bonner v. Gorman 86 (1909) Fuller none none Ark. dismissed for want of jurisdiction
United States v. Dickinson 92 (1909) Fuller none none 1st Cir. dismissed
Hepner v. United States 103 (1909) Harlan none none 2d Cir. remanded to divided lower court
United States v. Mason 115 (1909) Harlan none none D. Colo. affirmed
Hurley v. Atchison, T. & S.F. Ry. Co. 126 (1909) Brewer none none 8th Cir. affirmed
Keerl v. Montana 135 (1909) Brewer none none Mont. affirmed
Keller v. United States 138 (1909) Brewer none Holmes N.D. Ill. reversed
Murray v. Wilson Distilling Co. 151 (1909) White none none 4th Cir. reversed
Murray v. South Carolina ex rel. Ray 174 (1909) White none none S.C. affirmed
Siler v. Louisville & N.R.R. Co. 175 (1909) Peckham none none C.C.E.D. Ky. affirmed
Siler v. Illinois C.R.R. Co. 199 (1909) Peckham none none C.C.E.D. Ky. affirmed
Selliger v. Kentucky 200 (1909) Holmes none none Ky. Ct. App. reversed
Chesapeake & O.R.R. Co. v. McCabe 207 (1909) Day none none Ky. Ct. App. reversed
Coder v. Arts 223 (1909) Day none none 8th Cir. affirmed
Commercial Mut. Accident Co. v. Davis 245 (1909) Day none none C.C.W.D. Mo. affirmed
Turner v. American Sec. & Tr. Co. 257 (1909) Moody none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Maiorano v. Baltimore & O.R.R. Co. 268 (1909) Moody none none Pa. affirmed
Boise Artesian H. & C.W. Co. v. City of Boise City 276 (1909) Moody none none C.C.D. Idaho affirmed
MacFadden v. United States 288 (1909) Moody none none 3d Cir. dismissed for want of jurisdiction
United States v. Evans 297 (1909) Fuller none none D.C. Cir. certiorari quashed
Leeds & Catlin Co. v. Victor Talking Mach. Co. I 301 (1909) McKenna none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Leeds & Catlin Co. v. Victor Talking Mach. Co. II 325 (1909) McKenna none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Van Gieson v. Maile 338 (1909) Holmes none none not indicated affirmed
Boquillas Land & Cattle Co. v. Curtis 339 (1909) Holmes none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. affirmed
American Banana Co. v. United Fruit Co. 347 (1909) Holmes none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Sand Filtration Corp. v. Cowardin 360 (1909) Day none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
United States ex rel. Att’y Gen. v. Delaware & Hudson Co. 366 (1909) White none Harlan C.C.E.D. Pa. reversed
Strong v. Repide 419 (1909) Peckham none none Phil. reversed
Delaware & Hudson Co. v. Albany & S.R.R. Co. 435 (1909) McKenna none none 2d Cir. remanded to divided lower court
Manson v. Williams 453 (1909) Holmes none none 1st Cir. affirmed
In re Winn 458 (1909) Moody none none C.C.S.D. Iowa mandamus granted

Notes and references

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

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