# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 155

This is a list of cases reported in volume 155 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1894 and 1895.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 155 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 155 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
| 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) |
| Stephen Johnson Field | Associate Justice | California | newly created seat | March 10, 1863 (Acclamation) | May 10, 1863 – December 1, 1897 (Retired) |
| John Marshall Harlan | Associate Justice | Kentucky | David Davis | November 29, 1877 (Acclamation) | December 10, 1877 – October 14, 1911 (Died) |
| Horace Gray | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Nathan Clifford | December 20, 1881 (51–5) | January 9, 1882 – September 15, 1902 (Died) |
| David Josiah Brewer | Associate Justice | Kansas | Stanley Matthews | December 18, 1889 (53–11) | January 6, 1890 – March 28, 1910 (Died) |
| Henry Billings Brown | Associate Justice | Michigan | Samuel Freeman Miller | December 29, 1890 (Acclamation) | January 5, 1891 – May 28, 1906 (Retired) |
| George Shiras Jr. | Associate Justice | Pennsylvania | Joseph P. Bradley | July 26, 1892 (Acclamation) | October 10, 1892 – February 23, 1903 (Retired) |
| Howell Edmunds Jackson | Associate Justice | Tennessee | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar | February 18, 1893 (Acclamation) | March 4, 1893 – August 8, 1895 (Died) |
| Edward Douglass White | Associate Justice | Louisiana | Samuel Blatchford | February 19, 1894 (Acclamation) | March 12, 1894 – December 18, 1910 (Continued as chief justice) |

## Notable Case in 155 U.S.
### Schillinger v. United States

In Schillinger v. United States, 155 U.S. 163 (1894), the Supreme Court held that a suit for patent infringement cannot be entertained against the United States, because patent infringement is a tort and the United States had not waived sovereign immunity for intentional torts. The United States subsequently waived sovereign immunity for torts committed negligently.

## 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.
* "# Cir." = United States Court of Appeals
** e.g., "3d Cir." = United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
* "C.C.D." = United States Circuit Court for the District of . . .
** e.g.,"C.C.D.N.J." = United States Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
* "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.,"C.C.S.D.N.Y." = United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
** 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 155 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson | 3 (1894) | Harlan (see 154 U.S. 447) | none | Brewer | C.C.N.D. Ill. | reversed |
| Robb v. Vos | 13 (1894) | Shiras | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| Talbert v. United States | 45 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Wright v. Yuengling | 47 (1894) | Brown | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Lewis v. Pima County | 54 (1894) | Brown | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. | affirmed |
| Greeley v. Lowe | 58 (1894) | Brown | none | none | C.C.N.D. Fla. | reversed |
| United States v. Coe | 76 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | Ct. Priv. Land Cl. | dismissal denied |
| Sipperley v. Smith | 86 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah | dismissed |
| New York v. Eno | 89 (1894) | Harlan | none | Field | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Pepke v. Cronan | 100 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | D.N.D. | affirmed |
| Chappell v. Waterworth | 102 (1894) | Gray | none | none | C.C.D. Md. | reversed |
| United States v. Jahn | 109 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | 2d Cir. | certification |
| Allis v. United States | 117 (1894) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.E.D. Ark. | affirmed |
| Erhardt v. Schroeder | 124 (1894) | Shiras | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Holmes | 137 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | Wash. | dismissed |
| Olin v. Timken | 141 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ohio | reversed |
| Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Company v. Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company | 156 (1894) | Gray | none | none | 7th Cir. | certification |
| Schillinger v. United States | 163 (1894) | Brewer | none | Harlan | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| United States v. Blackfeather | 180 (1894) | Brown | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
| Cherokee Nation v. Journeycake | 196 (1894) | Brewer | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Cherokee Nation v. Blackfeather | 218 (1894) | Brewer | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Deland v. Platte County | 221 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mo. | dismissed |
| Lloyd v. Matthews | 222 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | Ky. | dismissed |
| Origet v. Hedden | 228 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Muser v. Magone | 240 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| The Breakwater | 252 (1894) | Brown | none | none | C.C.E.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Warren v. Keep | 265 (1894) | Shiras | none | none | C.C.N.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Thompson v. United States | 271 (1894) | Shiras | none | none | C.C.W.D. Ark. | reversed |
| Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company v. Cane Creek Township | 283 (1894) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.D.S.C. | reversed |
| Deering v. Winona Harvester Works | 286 (1894) | Brown | none | none | C.C.D. Minn. | reversed |
| United States ex rel. International Contracting Company v. Lamont | 303 (1894) | White | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Pearce v. Texas | 311 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | Tex. Crim. App. | affirmed |
| Wehrman v. Conklin | 314 (1894) | Brown | none | none | C.C.N.D. Iowa | affirmed |
| Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Jones | 333 (1894) | Shiras | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | reversed |
| Lake Superior Ship Canal, Railway and Iron Company v. Cunningham | 354 (1894) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mich. | affirmed |
| Lake Superior Ship Canal, Railway and Iron Company v. Finan | 385 (1894) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mich. | reversed |
| Donahue v. Lake Superior Ship Canal, Railway and Iron Company | 386 (1894) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mich. | reversed |
| United States v. Gunnison | 389 (1894) | White | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
| Horne v. George H. Hammond Company | 393 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.D. Mass. | reversed |
| Swan v. Hill | 394 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. | affirmed |
| In re Rice | 396 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.E.D. Pa. | mandamus denied |
| Dick v. Foraker | 404 (1894) | White | none | none | C.C.E.D. Ark. | reversed |
| Bobb v. Jamison | 416 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | Mo. | dismissed |
| Austin v. United States | 417 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Ingraham v. United States | 434 (1894) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.D.R.I. | affirmed |
| Potter v. United States | 438 (1894) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.D. Mass. | reversed |
| Alsop v. Riker | 448 (1894) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Plumley v. Massachusetts | 461 (1894) | Harlan | none | Fuller | Mass. | affirmed |
| Postal Telegraph Cable Company v. Alabama | 482 (1894) | Gray | none | none | C.C.M.D. Ala. | reversed |
| East Lake Land Company v. Brown | 488 (1894) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ala. | reversed |
| Chase v. United States | 489 (1894) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.D. Ind. | affirmed |
| Linford v. Ellison | 503 (1895) | Fuller | none | Harlan | Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah | dismissed |
| Indiana ex rel. Stanton v. Glover | 513 (1895) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.D. Ind. | affirmed |
| In re New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company | 523 (1895) | Fuller | none | none | 2d Cir. | prohibition denied |
| Cooper v. Newell | 532 (1895) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.E.D. Tex. | reversed |
| Burke v. American Loan and Trust Company | 534 (1895) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| South Carolina v. Wesley | 542 (1895) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.D.S.C. | dismissed |
| Westmoreland v. United States | 545 (1895) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.E.D. Tex. | affirmed |
| McCabe v. Matthews | 550 (1895) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.N.D. Fla. | affirmed |
| Evansville Bank v. German-American Bank | 556 (1895) | Brewer | none | none | C.C.D. Ind. | affirmed |
| Coupe v. Royer | 565 (1895) | Shiras | none | none | C.C.D. Mass. | reversed |
| Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Interstate Transportation Company | 585 (1895) | Shiras | none | none | C.C.E.D. La. | affirmed |
| United States v. Allred | 591 (1895) | Brown | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Potts v. Creager | 597 (1895) | Brown | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ohio | reversed |
| Campbell v. City of Haverhill | 610 (1895) | Brown | none | none | C.C.D. Mass. | affirmed |
| Market Street Cable Railway Company v. Rowley | 621 (1895) | Shiras | none | Brown | C.C.N.D. Cal. | reversed |
| Davis v. Schwartz | 631 (1895) | Brown | none | none | C.C.S.D. Iowa | multiple |
| Hooper v. California | 648 (1895) | White | none | Harlan | Cal. Super. Ct. | affirmed |
| Brown v. Spilman | 665 (1895) | Shiras | none | none | C.C.D.W. Va. | reversed |
| Sherman v. United States | 673 (1895) | Brown | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| McKnight v. James | 685 (1895) | Brown | none | none | Ohio Cir. Ct. | dismissed |
| Postal Telegraph Company v. Adams | 688 (1895) | Fuller | none | none | Miss. | affirmed |