# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 246

This is a list of cases reported in volume 246 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1918.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 246 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 246 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) |
| 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 246 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition of case |
| Armour and Company v. Virginia | 1 (1918) | White | none | none | Va. | affirmed |
| Boston Store v. American Graphophone Company | 8 (1918) | White | Brandeis | none | 7th Cir. | certification |
| Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company v. International Curtis Marine Turbine Company | 28 (1918) | White | none | none | 3d Cir. | affirmed |
| Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America v. Simon | 46 (1918) | White | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Texas | 58 (1918) | Holmes | none | none | Tex. Civ. App. | affirmed |
| Municipal Securities Corporation v. City of Kansas City | 63 (1918) | Day | none | none | Mo. | dismissed |
| Krueger v. United States | 69 (1918) | Day | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| People's Tobacco Company v. American Tobacco Company | 79 (1918) | Day | none | none | E.D. La. | affirmed |
| Brader v. James | 88 (1918) | Day | none | none | Okla. | affirmed |
| Eiger v. Garrity | 97 (1918) | Day | none | none | Ill. | affirmed |
| Talley v. Burgess | 104 (1918) | Day | none | none | Okla. | affirmed |
| Anicker v. Gunsburg | 110 (1918) | Day | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Great Northern Railroad Company v. Donaldson | 121 (1918) | Day | none | none | Wash. | affirmed |
| Ex parte Slater | 128 (1918) | VanDevanter | none | none | E.D. Mo. | mandamus denied |
| International Paper Company v. Massachusetts | 135 (1918) | VanDevanter | none | none | Mass. | reversed |
| Locomobile Company of America v. Massachusetts | 146 (1918) | VanDevanter | none | none | Mass. | reversed |
| Cheney Brothers Company v. Massachusetts | 147 (1918) | VanDevanter | none | none | Mass. | multiple |
| Arkansas v. Tennessee | 158 (1918) | Pitney | none | none | original | boundary set |
| City of Denver v. Denver Union Water Company | 178 (1918) | Pitney | none | Holmes | D. Colo. | affirmed |
| Sutton v. English | 199 (1918) | Pitney | none | none | E.D. Tex. | affirmed |
| Denee v. Ankeny | 208 (1918) | McReynolds | none | none | Wash. | affirmed |
| Lane v. Morrison | 214 (1918) | McReynolds | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
| United States v. Bathgate | 220 (1918) | McReynolds | none | none | S.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| Egan v. McDonald | 227 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | S.D. | affirmed |
| Chicago Board of Trade v. United States | 231 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | N.D. Ill. | reversed |
| Sears v. City of Akron | 242 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | N.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| Nelson v. Southern Railroad Company | 253 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | N.C. | affirmed |
| Bilby v. Stewart | 255 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | Okla. | dismissed |
| Brogan v. National Surety Company | 257 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | 6th Cir. | reversed |
| McCurdy v. United States | 263 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | W.D. Okla. | reversed |
| Andrews v. Nix and Company | 273 (1918) | Clarke | none | none | N.J. | affirmed |
| Great Northern Railroad Company v. Alexander | 276 (1918) | Clarke | none | none | Mont. | dismissed |
| Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Wismer | 283 (1918) | Clarke | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
| Cissna v. Tennessee | 289 (1918) | Pitney | none | none | Tenn. | reversed |
| Oetjen v. Central Leather Company | 297 (1918) | Clarke | none | none | Hudson County Cir. Ct. | affirmed |
| Ricaud v. American Metal Company | 304 (1918) | Clarke | none | none | 5th Cir. | certification |
| Stadelman v. Miner | 311 (1918) | White | none | none | Or. | rehearing granted |
| Rock Spring Distlling Company v. W.A. Gaines and Company | 312 (1918) | McKenna | none | none | 6th Cir. | reversed |
| Ireland v. Woods | 323 (1918) | McKenna | none | none | N.Y. | dismissed |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Hadley | 330 (1918) | Holmes | none | none | Neb. | affirmed |
| Wells v. Roper | 335 (1918) | Pitney | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Sheckels v. District of Columbia | 338 (1918) | Pitney | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Omaechevarria v. Idaho | 343 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | Idaho | affirmed |
| Pendleton v. Benner Line | 353 (1918) | Holmes | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| New York Life Insurance Company v. Dodge | 357 (1918) | McReynolds | none | Brandeis | Mo. App. | reversed |
| Smith v. Jackson | 388 (1918) | White | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Spring Valley Water Company v. City and County of San Francisco | 391 (1918) | White | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
| City of Mitchell v. Dakota Central Telephone Company | 396 (1918) | McKenna | none | none | D.S.D. | reversed |
| City of Covington v. South Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway Company | 413 (1918) | Holmes | none | Clarke | E.D. Ky. | affirmed |
| International–Great Northern Railroad Company v. Anderson County | 424 (1918) | Holmes | none | none | Tex. App. | affirmed |
| Great Northern Railroad Company v. Minnesota ex rel. Village of Clara City | 434 (1918) | Day | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Boston and Maine Railroad Company v. Piper | 439 (1918) | Day | none | none | Vt. | affirmed |
| Salt Lake Investment Company v. Oregon Short Line Railroad Company | 446 (1918) | VanDevanter | none | none | Utah | affirmed |
| Cudahy Packing Company v. Minnesota | 450 (1918) | VanDevanter | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Manufacturers' Railroad Company v. United States | 457 (1918) | Pitney | none | none | E.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| Dalton Adding Machine Company v. Virginia ex rel. State Corporation Commission | 498 (1918) | McReynolds | none | none | Va. | affirmed |
| General Railway Signal Company v. Virginia ex rel. State Corporation Commission | 500 (1918) | McReynolds | none | none | Va. | affirmed |
| Chicago and North Western Railway Company v. United States | 512 (1918) | McReynolds | none | none | 7th Cir. | reversed |
| United States v. Schider | 519 (1918) | McReynolds | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Bethlehem Steel Company v. United States | 523 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Holloway | 525 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | Ky. | affirmed |
| United States v. Soldana | 530 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | D. Mont. | reversed |
| United States v. Weitzel | 533 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | E.D. Ky. | affirmed |
| Stadelman v. Miner | 544 (1918) | Brandeis | none | none | Or. | dismissed |
| Thompson v. United States | 547 (1918) | Clarke | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| United States v. Whited and Wheless, Ltd. | 552 (1918) | Clarke | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
| Virginia v. West Virginia | 565 (1918) | White | none | none | original | continued |
| Waite v. Macy | 606 (1918) | Holmes | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Saalfield v. United States | 610 (1918) | Clarke | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Ibanez v. Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation I | 621 (1918) | McKenna | none | none | Phil. | affirmed |
| Ibanez v. Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation II | 627 (1918) | McKenna | none | none | Phil. | affirmed |
| Dickinson v. Stiles | 631 (1918) | Holmes | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| E.H. Emery and Company v. American Refrigerator Transit Company | 634 (1918) | Holmes | none | none | S.D. Iowa | reversed |
| United States ex rel. Louisville Cement Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission | 638 (1918) | Clarke | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |