# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 233

This is a list of cases reported in volume 233 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1914.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 233 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 233 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 233 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| Miller v. United States | 1 (1914) | White | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Browning v. Waycross | 16 (1914) | White | none | none | Ga. Ct. App. | affirmed |
| De Bearn v. Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore | 24 (1914) | White | none | none | D. Md. | dismissed |
| Metzger Motor Car Company v. Parrott | 36 (1914) | White | none | none | E.D. Mich. | reversed |
| Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company v. Lindsay | 42 (1914) | White | none | none | 7th Cir. | affirmed |
| Carlesi v. New York | 51 (1914) | White | none | none | N.Y. Ct. Gen. Sess. | affirmed |
| Archer v. Greenville Sand and Gravel Company | 60 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
| Herbert v. Bicknell | 70 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. | affirmed |
| Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Kaw Valley Drainage District | 75 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | Kan. | reversed |
| Southern Railway v. Bennett | 80 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | S.C. | affirmed |
| Arizona ex rel. Gaines v. Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company | 87 (1914) | Day | none | none | Ariz. | affirmed |
| Boston and Maine Railroad Company v. Hooker | 97 (1914) | Day | none | Pitney | Mass. Super. Ct. | reversed |
| United States ex rel. Texas Portland Cement Company v. McCord | 157 (1914) | Day | none | none | 3d Cir. | certification |
| Hollerbach v. United States | 165 (1914) | Day | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Robinson | 173 (1914) | Day | none | none | Okla. | reversed |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Moore | 182 (1914) | Day | none | none | Okla. | reversed |
| Myers v. Pittsburgh Coal Company | 184 (1914) | Day | none | none | 3d Cir. | reversed |
| Russell v. Sebastian | 195 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | Cal. | reversed |
| Union Lime Company v. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company | 211 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | Wis. | affirmed |
| United States v. Birdsall | 223 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | N.D. Iowa | reversed |
| Diamond Coal and Coke Company v. United States | 236 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| El Paso Brick Company v. McKnight | 250 (1914) | Lamar | none | none | N.M. | reversed |
| American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company v. Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company | 261 (1914) | Lamar | none | none | 4th Cir. | certification |
| Franklin v. Lynch | 269 (1914) | Lamar | none | none | Okla. | affirmed |
| Tevis v. Ryan | 273 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | Ariz. | affirmed |
| Lewis v. Frick | 291 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | 6th Cir. | affirmed |
| Singer Sewing Machine Company v. Brickell | 304 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | S.D. Ala. | affirmed |
| O'Sullivan v. Felix | 318 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Anderson | 325 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | Ark. | affirmed |
| Hammond Packing Company v. Montana | 331 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | Mont. | affirmed |
| Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company v. Iowa | 334 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | Iowa | affirmed |
| White v. Island Transportation Company | 346 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | W.D. Wash. | affirmed |
| Farrugia v. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company | 352 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | E.D. Pa. | dismissed |
| Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company v. George | 354 (1914) | Lamar | none | none | Ga. Ct. App. | affirmed |
| Carondelet Canal and Navigation Company v. Louisiana | 362 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | La. | reversed |
| German Alliance Insurance Company v. Lewis | 389 (1914) | McKenna | none | Lamar | C.C.D. Kan. | affirmed |
| Wheeler v. Sohmer | 434 (1914) | Holmes | McKenna | Lamar | N.Y. County Sur. Ct. | affirmed |
| Nadal v. May | 447 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | D.P.R. | affirmed |
| San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company v. Stanislaus County | 454 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | C.C.N.D. Cal. | reversed |
| Thaddeus Davids Company v. Davids Manufacturing Company | 461 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Behrens | 473 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | 5th Cir. | certification |
| Baer Brothers Mercantile Company v. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company | 479 (1914) | Lamar | none | none | 8th Cir. | reversed |
| Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company v. Horton | 492 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | N.C. | reversed |
| United States v. Vulte | 509 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| United States v. Foster | 515 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | D. Mass. | reversed |
| Bowling and Miami Investment Company v. United States | 528 (1914) | Hughes | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Holden Land and Live Stock Company v. Interstate Trading Company | 536 (1914) | Hughes | none | Day | Kan. | dismissed |
| Richards v. Washington Terminal Company | 546 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
| Green v. Menominee Tribe | 558 (1914) | White | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Southern Railroad Company v. Gadd | 572 (1914) | White | none | none | 6th Cir. | affirmed |
| Itow v. United States | 581 (1914) | White | none | none | D. Alaska | dismissed |
| Apapas v. United States | 587 (1914) | White | none | none | S.D. Cal. | dismissed |
| Cornell Steamboat Company v. Phoenix Construction Company | 593 (1914) | White | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | affirmed |
| Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company v. Arizona and Colorado Railroad Company | 601 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | N.M. | affirmed |
| Gompers v. United States | 604 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
| Logan v. Davis | 613 (1914) | VanDevanter | none | none | Iowa | reversed |
| Smith v. Texas | 630 (1914) | Lamar | none | none | Tex. Crim. App. | reversed |
| Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas v. Cade | 642 (1914) | Pitney | none | none | Dallas County Justice Ct. | affirmed |
| Bowe v. Scott | 658 (1914) | White | none | none | Va. | dismissed |
| McDonald v. Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company Company | 665 (1914) | White | none | none | Or. | dismissed |
| Erie Railroad Company v. New York | 671 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | reversed |
| Erie Railroad Company v. Williams | 685 (1914) | McKenna | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | affirmed |
| Valdes v. Larrinaga | 705 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | D.P.R. | affirmed |
| Detroit Steel Cooperage Company v. Sistersville Brewing Company | 712 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | 4th Cir. | reversed |
| Oceanic Steam Navigation Company v. Mellor | 718 (1914) | Holmes | none | none | 2d Cir. | certification |