# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 282

This is a list of cases reported in volume 282 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1930 and 1931.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 282 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 to 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 282 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
| Justice | Office | Home State | Succeeded | Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote) | Tenure on Supreme Court |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Chief Justice | New York | William Howard Taft | February 13, 1930 (52–26) | February 24, 1930 – June 30, 1941 (Retired) |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Horace Gray | December 4, 1902 (Acclamation) | December 8, 1902 – January 12, 1932 (Retired) |
| Willis Van Devanter | Associate Justice | Wyoming | Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) | December 15, 1910 (Acclamation) | January 3, 1911 – June 2, 1937 (Retired) |
| 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) |
| George Sutherland | Associate Justice | Utah | John Hessin Clarke | September 5, 1922 (Acclamation) | October 2, 1922 – January 17, 1938 (Retired) |
| Pierce Butler | Associate Justice | Minnesota | William R. Day | December 21, 1922 (61–8) | January 2, 1923 – November 16, 1939 (Died) |
| Harlan F. Stone | Associate Justice | New York | Joseph McKenna | February 5, 1925 (71–6) | March 2, 1925 – July 2, 1941 (Continued as chief justice) |
| Owen Roberts | Associate Justice | Pennsylvania | Edward Terry Sanford | May 20, 1930 (Acclamation) | June 2, 1930 – July 31, 1945 (Resigned) |

## Federal court system

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.

## List of cases in volume 282 U.S.

| Case name | Citation | Opinion of the Court | Vote | Concurring opinion or statement | Dissenting opinion or statement | Procedural jurisdiction | Result |
| Beidler v. South Carolina Tax Commission | 282 U.S. 1 (1930) | Hughes | 9-0 | brief statement by Holmes that he and Brandeis "acquiesce" in the decision | none | error to the South Carolina Supreme Court (S.C.) | judgment reversed, and cause remanded |
| Stratton, Secretary of State of Illinois, v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company | 282 U.S. 10 (1930) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Cir.) | decree reversed, and cause remanded to the Circuit Court of Appeals with directions to dismiss the appeal to that court for want of jurisdiction |
| Klein v. Board of Tax Supervisors of Jefferson County, Kentucky | 282 U.S. 19 (1930) | Holmes | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the Kentucky Court of Appeals (Ky.) | judgment affirmed |
| Sherman v. United States | 282 U.S. 25 (1930) | Holmes | 9-0 | none | none | certified questions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation v. United States | 282 U.S. 30 (1930) | McReynolds | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y.) | decree affirmed |
| United States v. First National Pictures, Inc. | 282 U.S. 44 (1930) | McReynolds | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y.) | decree reversed, and cause remanded |
| Crooks, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Harrelson | 282 U.S. 55 (1930) | Sutherland | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (8th Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| District of Columbia v. Colts | 282 U.S. 63 (1930) | Sutherland | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Railway Company v. United States | 282 U.S. 74 (1930) | Butler | 9-0 | none | none | appeals from the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (W.D. Mo.) | decrees affirmed |
| Aluminum Castings Company v. Routzahn, Collector of Internal Revenue | 282 U.S. 92 (1930) | Stone | 7-2 | Sutherland (opinion, with which Roberts concurred) | McReynolds and Butler (joint opinion) | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (6th Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Poe, Collector of Internal Revenue v. Seaborn | 282 U.S. 101 (1930) | Roberts | 7-0[a] [b] | none | none | certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Goodell, Collector of Internal Revenue v. Koch | 282 U.S. 118 (1930) | Roberts | 7-0[a] [b] | none | none | certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Hopkins, Collector of Internal Revenue v. Bacon | 282 U.S. 122 (1930) | Roberts | 7-0[a] [b] | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (5th Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Bender, Collector of Internal Revenue v. Pfaff | 282 U.S. 127 (1930) | Roberts | 7-0[a] [b] | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (5th Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Company | 282 U.S. 133 (1930) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (N.D. Ill.) | decree set aside, and cause remanded |
| Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company v. Holmberg | 282 U.S. 162 (1930) | Stone | 9-0 | none | none | error to the Nebraska Supreme Court (Neb.) | judgment reversed, and cause remanded |
| Lektophone Corporation v. Rola Company | 282 U.S. 168 (1930) | Holmes | 8-0[a] | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Cir.), and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (3d Cir.) | one judgment affirmed; one judgment reversed |
| Wampler v. Lecompte | 282 U.S. 172 (1930) | Brandeis | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the Maryland Court of Appeals (Md.) | judgment affirmed |
| Powers-Kennedy Contracting Corporation v. Concrete Mixing and Conveying Company | 282 U.S. 175 (1930) | Roberts | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.), and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Cir.) | decree in one case reversed, and cause remanded; decree in one case affirmed |
| Broad River Power Company v. South Carolina ex rel. Daniel, Attorney General | 282 U.S. 187 (1930) | per curiam | 8-0[c] | VanDevanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, and Butler (joint opinion) | none | certiorari to the South Carolina Supreme Court (S.C.) | upon rehearing (see 281 U.S. 537), the Court adheres to the view that the writ of certiorari should be dismissed for want of jurisdiction |
| Florida v. United States | 282 U.S. 194 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | appeals from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (N.D. Ga.) | decrees reversed |
| Willcutts, Collector of Internal Revenue v. Bunn | 282 U.S. 216 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (8th Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| Uravic v. F. Jarka Company, Inc. | 282 U.S. 234 (1931) | Holmes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the New York Supreme Court (N.Y. Sup. Ct.) | judgment reversed |
| Memphis and Charleston Railway Company v. Pace | 282 U.S. 241 (1931) | VanDevanter | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the Mississippi Supreme Court (Miss.) | judgment affirmed |
| Wisconsin Railroad Commission v. Maxcy | 282 U.S. 249 (1931) | McReynolds | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (W.D. Wis.) | decree affirmed |
| O'Gorman and Young, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company | 282 U.S. 251 (1931) | Brandeis | 5-4 | none | VanDevanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, and Butler (joint opinion) | appeal from the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals (N.J.) | judgment affirmed |
| Stange v. United States | 282 U.S. 270 (1931) | Brandeis | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.) | judgment affirmed |
| Aiken v. Burnet, Commissioner of Internal Revenue | 282 U.S. 277 (1931) | Brandeis | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (8th Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| W.P. Brown and Sons Lumber Company v. Burnet, Commissioner of Internal Revenue | 282 U.S. 283 (1931) | Brandeis | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (6th Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Burnet, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Chicago Railway Equipment Company | 282 U.S. 295 (1931) | Brandeis | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| United States v. Benz | 282 U.S. 304 (1931) | Sutherland | 9-0 | none | none | certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (3d Cir.) | certified question answered |
| United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company | 282 U.S. 311 (1931) | Sutherland | 5-3[a] | none | Stone (opinion; with which Holmes and Brandeis concurred) | appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (N.D. Ill.) | decree affirmed |
| Go-Bart Importing Company v. United States | 282 U.S. 344 (1931) | Butler | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.) | judgments reversed, and cause remanded to district court |
| Burnet, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Sanford and Brooks Company | 282 U.S. 359 (1931) | Stone | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (4th Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| White v. Johnson | 282 U.S. 367 (1931) | Roberts | 9-0 | none | none | certified questions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Cir.) | certificate dismissed |
| American Bond and Mortgage Company v. United States | 282 U.S. 374 (1931) | Roberts | 9-0 | none | none | certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Cir.) | certificate dismissed |
| Fawcus Machine Company v. United States | 282 U.S. 375 (1931) | Roberts | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.) | judgment affirmed |
| Educational Films Corporation of America v. Ward, Attorney General of New York | 282 U.S. 379 (1931) | Stone | 6-3 | none | Sutherland (opinion; joined by VanDevanter and Butler) | appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y.) | judgment affirmed |
| International Paper Company v. United States | 282 U.S. 399 (1931) | Holmes | 6-3 | none | McReynolds, Stone, and Roberts (without opinions) | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.) | judgment reversed |
| Graham and Foster v. Goodcell | 282 U.S. 409 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth, First, Second, and Sixth Circuits, and to the United States Court of Claims | judgments affirmed |
| Magee v. United States | 282 U.S. 432 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.) | judgment affirmed |
| Mascot Oil Company v. United States | 282 U.S. 434 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.), and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (3d Cir.) | judgment affirmed in one case; judgement reversed in two cases |
| Burnet, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Willingham Loan and Trust Company | 282 U.S. 437 (1931) | Holmes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (5th Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Virginia | 282 U.S. 440 (1931) | Holmes | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the Virginia Supreme Court (Va.) | judgment affirmed |
| Ensten v. Simon, Ascher and Company | 282 U.S. 445 (1931) | McReynolds | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Louisiana v. Mississippi | 282 U.S. 458 (1931) | Roberts | 9-0 | none | none | original | commission appointed to locate the thread of the main channel of the Mississippi River as the same was immediately prior to the avulsion of 1912-13 |
| United States v. Swift and Company | 282 U.S. 468 (1931) | Roberts | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.) | judgment affirmed |
| United States v. Boston Buick Company | 282 U.S. 476 (1931) | Roberts | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1st Cir.) | judgments affirmed |
| Pottstown Iron Company v. United States | [ 282 U.S. 479 (1931)] | Roberts | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.) | judgment affirmed |
| Russian Volunteer Fleet (Доброфлот) v. United States | 282 U.S. 481 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.) | judgment reversed |
| Furst and Thomas v. Brewster | 282 U.S. 493 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the Arkansas Supreme Court (Ark.) | We are of the opinion that the provisions of the statutes of Arkansas, as applied in this case, are in conflict with the commerce clause. Judgment reversed. |
| Bain Peanut Company of Texas v. Pinson | 282 U.S. 499 (1931) | Holmes | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the Texas Courts of Appeals (Tex. Civ. App.) | Order dismissing appeal vacated and judgment affirmed. |
| Alabama v. United States | 282 U.S. 502 (1931) | Holmes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.) | judgment reversed; petition to be dismissed for want of jurisdiction |
| Waite v. United States | 282 U.S. 508 (1931) | Holmes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Claims (Ct. Cl.) | judgment reversed |
| Alward v. Johnson, Treasurer of California | 282 U.S. 509 (1931) | McReynolds | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the California Supreme Court (Cal.) | judgment affirmed |
| Denman v. Slayton | 282 U.S. 514 (1931) | McReynolds | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (6th Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| Fullerton Lumber Company v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company | 282 U.S. 520 (1931) | Brandeis | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (8th Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| United States v. Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad Company | 282 U.S. 522 (1931) | Brandeis | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (N.D. Ga.) | judgment reversed |
| Langnes, owner of the fishing vessel "Aloha" v. Green | 282 U.S. 531 (1931) | Sutherland | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Cir.) | decrees reversed, and the cause remanded to the district court for further proceedings |
| Concordia Insurance Company of Milwaukee v. School District No. 98 of Payne County, Oklahoma | 282 U.S. 545 (1931) | Sutherland | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (10th Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Story Parchment Company v. Paterson Parchment Paper Company | 282 U.S. 555 (1931) | Sutherland | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1st Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| United States v. La Franca | 282 U.S. 568 (1931) | Sutherland | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (5th Cir.) | judgment of the court of appeals affirmed, and cause remanded to the district court |
| Various Items of Personal Property v. United States | 282 U.S. 577 (1931) | Sutherland | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Coolidge v. Long, Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation of Massachusetts | 282 U.S. 582 (1931) | Butler | 5-4 | none | Roberts (opinion; with which Holmes, Brandeis, and Stone concurred) | Norfolk County Probate Court (Norfolk Cnty. Prob. Ct.) | judgment reversed |
| V. Loewers Gambrinus Brewery Company v. Anderson | 282 U.S. 638 (1931) | Butler | 9-0 | Stone (without opinion) | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| Burnet, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. National Industrial Alcohol Company, Inc. | 282 U.S. 646 (1931) | Butler | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Burnet, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Niagara Falls Brewing Company | 282 U.S. 648 (1931) | Butler | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| United States v. Michel | 282 U.S. 656 (1931) | Butler | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.) | judgments reversed |
| Connecticut v. Massachusetts | 282 U.S. 660 (1931) | Butler | 9-0 | none | none | Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States (original) | Connecticut's bill of complaint dismissed |
| Prussian v. United States | 282 U.S. 675 (1931) | Stone | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Oxford Paper Co. v. The Nidarholm | 282 U.S. 681 (1931) | Stone | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1st Cir.) | judgment affirmed |
| Alford v. United States | 282 U.S. 687 (1931) | Stone | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| Husty v. United States | 282 U.S. 694 (1931) | Stone | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (6th Cir.) | judgment reversed, and cause remanded to the district court |
| Saranac Automatic Machine Corporation v. Wirebounds Patents Company | 282 U.S. 704 (1931) | Stone | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (6th Cir.) | judgment reversed |
| United States v. Sprague | 282 U.S. 716 (1931) | Roberts | 8-0[a] | none | none | appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (D.N.J.) | order below reversed |
| Isaacs v. Hobbs Tie & Timber Company | 282 U.S. 734 (1931) | Roberts | 9-0 | none | none | certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (8th Cir.) | judgment reversed, and cause remanded to district court |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. United States | 282 U.S. 740 (1931) | Hughes | 7-2 | none | McReynolds and Sutherland (without opinions) | appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (W.D. Ky.) | decree affirmed |
| Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. United States | 282 U.S. 760 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (W.D. Mo.) | decree affirmed |
| Abie State Bank v. Bryan, Governor of Nebraska | 282 U.S. 765 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | appeal from the Nebraska Supreme Court (Neb.) | judgment of the supreme court of the state denying an injunction affirmed |
| Smith v. Magic City Kennel Club, Inc. | 282 U.S. 784 (1931) | Hughes | 9-0 | none | none | certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (10th Cir.) | decree affirmed |
    [a] Hughes took no part in the case
    [b] Stone took no part in the case
    [c] Roberts took no part in the case