# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 231

This is a list of cases reported in volume 231 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1913 and 1914.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 231 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; this number always including one chief justice.
When the cases in volume 231 were decided, the Court comprised the following nine members:
| 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

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
* "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 231 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition of case |
| Wood v. Vandalia Railroad Company | 1 (1913) | Hughes | none | none | C.C.D. Ind. | reversed |
| Luria v. United States | 9 (1913) | VanDevanter | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| United States v. Sandoval | 28 (1913) | VanDevanter | none | none | D.N.M. | reversed |
| National City Bank of New York v. Hotchkiss | 50 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Mechanics' and Metals National Bank v. Ernst | 60 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Baltic Mining Company v. Massachusetts | 68 (1913) | Day | none | none | Mass. | affirmed |
| Virginia v. West Virginia | 89 (1913) | White | none | none | original | continued |
| Summers v. United States | 92 (1913) | McKenna | none | none | 9th Cir. | reversed |
| Alzua v. Johnson | 106 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | Phil. | affirmed |
| Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. United States | 112 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Clement National Bank v. Vermont | 120 (1913) | Hughes | none | none | Vt. | affirmed |
| United States v. Whitridge | 144 (1913) | Pitney | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Munsey v. Webb | 150 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Buchser v. Buchser | 157 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
| Straus v. Foxworth | 162 (1913) | VanDevanter | none | none | N.M. | affirmed |
| Torres v. Lothrop, Luce and Company | 171 (1913) | White | none | none | P.R. | affirmed |
| Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Houston | 181 (1913) | White | none | none | Minn. | reversed |
| United States v. Davis | 183 (1913) | White | none | none | W.D. Mo. | reversed |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Laramie Stock Yards Company | 190 (1913) | McKenna | none | none | D. Wy. | reversed |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Snow | 204 (1913) | McKenna | none | none | Colo. | reversed |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Sides | 213 (1913) | McKenna | none | none | Colo. | reversed |
| Kener v. La Grange Mills | 215 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | Ga. | affirmed |
| United States ex rel. Goldberg v. Daniels | 218 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Straus and Straus v. American Publishers' Association | 222 (1913) | Day | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | reversed |
| United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. United States ex rel. Bartlett | 237 (1913) | Day | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Brewer | 245 (1913) | Day | none | none | La. | dismissed |
| Marshall v. Dye | 250 (1913) | Day | none | none | Ind. | dismissed |
| City of Vicksburg v. Henson | 259 (1913) | Day | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
| United States v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company | 274 (1913) | Lurton | none | none | Comm. Ct. | affirmed |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Garrett | 298 (1913) | Hughes | none | none | C.C.E.D. Ky. | affirmed |
| Sturges and Burn Manufacturing Company v. Beauchamp | 320 (1913) | Hughes | none | none | Ill. | affirmed |
| Eastern Extension, Australia & China Telegraph Company, Ltd. v. United States | 326 (1913) | Hughes | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
| Little v. Williams | 335 (1913) | VanDevanter | none | none | Ark. | affirmed |
| Monson v. Simonson | 341 (1913) | VanDevanter | none | none | S.D. | reversed |
| Steet and Smith v. Atlas Manufacturing Company | 348 (1913) | VanDevanter | none | none | 8th Cir. | dismissed |
| Downman v. Texas | 353 (1913) | Lamar | none | none | Tex. Civ. App. | affirmed |
| United States v. Twenty-Five Packages of Panama Hats | 358 (1913) | Lamar | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company v. United States | 363 (1913) | Lamar | none | none | W.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Amoskeag Savings Bank v. Purdy | 373 (1913) | Pitney | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | affirmed |
| United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. Kentucky | 394 (1913) | Pitney | none | none | Ky. | affirmed |
| Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert | 399 (1913) | Pitney | none | none | 8th Cir. | certification |
| Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. United States | 423 (1913) | Pitney | none | none | Comm. Ct. | affirmed |
| Grand Trunk Railroad Company v. Michigan Railroad Commission | 457 (1913) | McKenna | none | none | E.D. Mich. | affirmed |
| Graham v. United States | 474 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | 4th Cir. | affirmed |
| Chavez v. Bergere | 482 (1913) | VanDevanter | none | none | N.M. | affirmed |
| United States v. Carter | 492 (1913) | White | none | none | W.D.N.C. | dismissed |
| New York Life Insurance Company v. Deer Lodge County | 495 (1913) | McKenna | none | none | Mont. | affirmed |
| Greey v. Dockendorff | 513 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | 3d Cir. | affirmed |
| Kinder v. Scharff | 517 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | La. | affirmed |
| Ludvigh v. American Woolen Company | 522 (1913) | Day | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Peabody v. United States | 530 (1913) | Hughes | none | none | Ct Cl. | affirmed |
| Springstead v. Crawfordsville State Bank | 541 (1913) | White | none | none | C.C.S.D. Fla. | reversed |
| Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Moore | 543 (1913) | McKenna | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
| Prudential Insurance Company v. Moore | 560 (1913) | McKenna | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
| Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Company v. Washington ex rel. Linhoff | 568 (1913) | Holmes | none | none | Wash. | dismissed |
| Pullman Company v. Croom | 571 (1913) | Day | none | none | C.C.N.D. Fla. | dismissed |
| Phoenix Railroad Company v. Landis | 578 (1913) | Hughes | none | none | Ariz. | affirmed |
| John v. Paullin | 583 (1913) | VanDevanter | none | none | Okla. | dismissed |
| Baker v. Warner | 588 (1913) | Lamar | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
| Work v. United Globe Mines | 595 (1914) | White | none | none | Ariz. | affirmed |
| Van Syckel v. Arsuaga | 601 (1914) | White | none | none | D.P.R. | affirmed |
| Wisconsin ex rel. Bolens v. Frear | 616 (1914) | White | none | none | Wis. | dismissed |
| Wyandotte County Gas Company v. Kansas ex rel. Marshall | 622 (1914) | White | none | none | Kan. | affirmed |
| Pennington v. United States | 631 (1914) | White | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| In re City of Louisville | 639 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | W.D. Ky. | mandamus denied |
| In re Engelhard and Sons Company | 646 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | W.D. Ky. | mandamus denied |
| Louisville v. Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company | 652 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | W.D. Ky. | affirmed |
| United States v. Antikamnia Chemical Company | 654 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
| Mulcrevy v. City of San Francisco | 669 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | Cal. | affirmed |
| Pennell v. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company | 675 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | 3d Cir. | affirmed |
| Tinker v. Midland Valley Mercantile Company | 681 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | Okla. | reversed |
| Trimble v. City of Seattle | 683 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | Wash. | affirmed |
| Piza Hermanos v. Caldentey | 690 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | P.R. | affirmed |
| Hobbs v. Head and Dowst Company | 692 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | 1st Cir. | affirmed |
| United States v. Moist | 701 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | N.D. Ill. | dismissed |
| Rainey v. W.R. Grace and Company | 703 (1914) | Day | none | none | 9th Cir. | certification |
| Cameron v. United States | 710 (1914) | Day | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Radford v. Myers | 725 (1914) | Day | none | none | Mich. | affirmed |