# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 177

This is a list of cases reported in volume 177 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1900.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 177 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 177 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) |
| 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) |
| Edward Douglass White | Associate Justice | Louisiana | Samuel Blatchford | February 19, 1894 (Acclamation) | March 12, 1894 – December 18, 1910 (Continued as chief justice) |
| 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) |

## 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 177 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| Jellenik v. Huron Copper Mining Company | 1 (1900) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mich. | reversed |
| Thorp v. Bonnifield | 15 (1900) | Peckham | none | none | 9th Cir. | dismissed |
| Quackenbush v. United States | 20 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Waters Pierce Oil Company v. Texas | 28 (1900) | McKenna | none | none | Tex. Civ. App. | affirmed |
| In re Grossmayer | 48 (1900) | Gray | none | none | E.D. Tex. | mandamus denied |
| Farmers' Loan and Trust Company v. Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company | 51 (1900) | Shiras | none | none | Ill. | reversed |
| Carmichael v. Eberle | 63 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. | dismissed |
| Houston and Texas Central Railway Company v. Texas | 66 (1900) | Peckham | Brown | none | Tex. Civ. App. | reversed |
| Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company v. Texas | 103 (1900) | per curiam | none | none | Tex. Civ. App. | reversed |
| United States v. Elder | 104 (1900) | White | none | none | Ct. Priv. Land Cl. | reversed |
| Jamestown and Northern Railroad Company v. Jones | 125 (1900) | McKenna | none | none | N.D. | reversed |
| Bristol v. Washington County | 133 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.D. Minn. | reversed |
| Union Refrigerator Transit Line Company v. Lynch | 149 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | Utah | affirmed |
| Murphy v. Massachusetts | 155 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | Mass. Super. Ct. | affirmed |
| Petit v. Minnesota | 164 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Crystal Springs Land and Water Company v. City of Los Angeles | 169 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.S.D. Cal. | affirmed |
| Camden and Suburban Railway Company v. Stetson | 172 (1900) | Peckham | none | none | 3d Cir. | certification |
| Forsyth v. Vehmeyer | 177 (1900) | Peckham | none | none | Ill. | affirmed |
| Gundling v. City of Chicago | 183 (1900) | Peckham | none | none | Ill. | affirmed |
| Ohio Oil Company v. Indiana I | 190 (1900) | White | none | none | Ind. | affirmed |
| Ohio Oil Company v. Indiana II | 212 (1900) | White | none | none | Ind. | affirmed |
| Ohio Oil Company v. Indiana III | 213 (1900) | White | none | none | Ind. | affirmed |
| Overby v. Gordon | 214 (1900) | White | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Schmidt | 230 (1900) | White | none | none | Ky. | affirmed |
| The Albert Dumois | 240 (1900) | Brown | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Knights of Pythias v. Withers | 260 (1900) | Brown | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Arnold v. Hatch | 276 (1900) | Brown | none | none | 7th Cir. | affirmed |
| Hyde v. Bishop Iron Company | 281 (1900) | Brewer | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Keim v. United States | 290 (1900) | Brewer | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Consolidated Canal Company v. Mesa Canal Company | 296 (1900) | Brewer | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. | affirmed |
| United States v. Harris | 305 (1900) | Shiras | none | none | 3d Cir. | affirmed |
| Credits Commutation Company v. United States | 311 (1900) | Shiras | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Saranac Land and Timber Company v. Comptroller | 318 (1900) | McKenna | none | none | C.C.N.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company v. Gardner | 332 (1900) | McKenna | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Caffrey v. Oklahoma | 346 (1900) | McKenna | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. | dismissed |
| Black v. Jackson | 349 (1900) | Harlan | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. | reversed |
| Potts v. Hollon | 365 (1900) | Harlan | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. | reversed |
| Wesley v. Eells | 370 (1900) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| Ex parte Baez | 378 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | Provisional Ct. P.R. | habeas corpus denied |
| Werlein v. City of New Orleans | 390 (1900) | Peckham | none | none | La. | reversed |
| American Express Company v. Michigan | 404 (1900) | White | none | Harlan | Mich. | reversed |
| Crawford v. Hubbell | 419 (1900) | White | none | none | 2d Cir. | certification |
| Doherty v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company | 421 (1900) | Shiras | none | none | Wis. | affirmed |
| United States v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company | 435 (1900) | Shiras | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Carter v. Texas | 442 (1900) | Gray | none | none | Tex. Crim. App. | reversed |
| Great Southern Fire Proof Hotel Company v. Jones | 449 (1900) | Harlan | none | none | 6th Cir. | reversed |
| Boske v. Comingore | 459 (1900) | Harlan | none | none | D. Ky. | affirmed |
| Adams v. Cowen | 471 (1900) | Brewer | none | none | 6th Cir. | affirmed |
| Mast Foos and Company v. Stover Manufacturing Company | 485 (1900) | Brown | none | none | 7th Cir. | affirmed |
| Carter v. Roberts | 496 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | dismissed |
| Tennessee v. Virginia | 501 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | original | boundary set |
| Shoshone Mining Company v. Rutter | 505 (1900) | Brewer | none | none | 9th Cir. | reversed |
| Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company v. Illinois | 514 (1900) | Brown | Brewer | none | Ill. | reversed |
| De Lamar's Nevada Gold Mining Company v. Nesbitt | 523 (1900) | Brown | none | none | Nev. | dismissed |
| Bad Elk v. United States | 529 (1900) | Peckham | none | none | C.C.D.S.D. | reversed |
| Apache County v. Barth | 538 (1900) | Peckham | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. | reversed |
| Daggs v. Phoenix National Bank | 549 (1900) | McKenna | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. | affirmed |
| City of Los Angeles v. Los Angeles City Water Company | 558 (1900) | McKenna | none | none | C.C.S.D. Cal. | affirmed |
| Erb v. Morasch | 584 (1900) | Brewer | none | none | Kan. | affirmed |
| L'Hote v. City of New Orleans | 587 (1900) | Brewer | none | none | La. | affirmed |
| Williams v. Wingo | 601 (1900) | Brewer | none | none | Va. | affirmed |
| Chamberlin v. Browning | 605 (1900) | White | none | none | D.C. Cir. | dismissed |
| Howard v. De Cordova | 609 (1900) | White | none | none | C.C.N.D. Tex. | reversed |
| Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company v. Thiebaud | 615 (1900) | Fuller | none | none | 6th Cir. | certification |
| Leovy v. United States | 621 (1900) | Shiras | none | none | 5th Cir. | reversed |
| Knapp Stout and Company v. McCaffrey | 638 (1900) | Brown | none | none | Ill. | affirmed |
| Bryar v. Campbell | 649 (1900) | Brown | none | none | 3d Cir. | affirmed |
| The Carlos F. Roses | 655 (1900) | Fuller | none | Shiras | S.D. Fla. | reversed |