# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 108

This is a list of cases reported in volume 108 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1882 and 1883.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 108 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 108 U.S. were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
| Justice | Office | Home State | Succeeded | Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote) | Tenure on Supreme Court |
| Morrison Waite | Chief Justice | Ohio | Salmon P. Chase | January 21, 1874 (63–0) | March 4, 1874 – March 23, 1888 (Died) |
| Samuel Freeman Miller | Associate Justice | Iowa | Peter Vivian Daniel | July 16, 1862 (Acclamation) | July 21, 1862 – October 13, 1890 (Died) |
| Stephen Johnson Field | Associate Justice | California | newly created seat | March 10, 1863 (Acclamation) | May 10, 1863 – December 1, 1897 (Retired) |
| Joseph P. Bradley | Associate Justice | New Jersey | newly created seat | March 21, 1870 (46–9) | March 23, 1870 – January 22, 1892 (Died) |
| John Marshall Harlan | Associate Justice | Kentucky | David Davis | November 29, 1877 (Acclamation) | December 10, 1877 – October 14, 1911 (Died) |
| William Burnham Woods | Associate Justice | Georgia | William Strong | December 21, 1880 (39–8) | January 5, 1881 – May 14, 1887 (Died) |
| Stanley Matthews | Associate Justice | Ohio | Noah Haynes Swayne | May 12, 1881 (24–23) | May 17, 1881 – March 22, 1889 (Died) |
| Horace Gray | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Nathan Clifford | December 20, 1881 (51–5) | January 9, 1882 – September 15, 1902 (Died) |
| Samuel Blatchford | Associate Justice | New York | Ward Hunt | March 22, 1882 (Acclamation) | April 3, 1882 – July 7, 1893 (Died) |

## 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.
Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.
* "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 108 U.S.

| Case Name | Page & year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| In re Amendments to Rules 1 & 10 | 1 (1882) | Waite | none | none | original | rules amended |
| Johnson v. Waters | 4 (1882) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. La. | supersedeas denied |
| Lehigh Crane Iron Company v. Hoagland | 5 (1882) | Waite | none | none | N.J. Sup. Ct. | dismissal denied |
| Waples v. Hays | 6 (1882) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. La. | affirmed |
| Bigelow v. Armes | 10 (1882) | Waite | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Gray v. Howe | 12 (1882) | Waite | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah | affirmed |
| Feibelman v. Packard | 14 (1882) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. La. | dismissed |
| Woolf v. Hamilton | 15 (1883) | Waite | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah | dismissed |
| City of New Orleans v. New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad Company | 15 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. La. | continued |
| Mayer v. Walsh | 17 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.S.D. Miss. | continued |
| Chicago and Alton Railroad Company v. Wiggins Ferry Company | 18 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway v. Southern Exchange Company | 24 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | dismissal denied |
| Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad Company v. Dinsmore | 30 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. Kan. | certiorari granted |
| Stebbins v. Duncan | 32 (1883) | Woods | none | none | C.C.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Cushman | 51 (1883) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Medsker v. Bonebrake | 66 (1883) | Miller | none | none | C.C.D. Ind. | reversed |
| Stucky v. Masonic Savings Bank | 74 (1883) | Miller | none | none | C.C.D. Ky. | affirmed |
| New Hampshire v. Louisiana | 76 (1883) | Waite | none | none | original | dismissed |
| The Nuestra Senora de Regla | 92 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Crossley v. City of New Orleans | 105 (1883) | Waite | none | none | La. | dismissed |
| Merritt v. Stephani | 106 (1883) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Merritt v. Park | 109 (1883) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| City of Ottawa v. Carey | 110 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | reversed |
| Arthur v. Fox | 125 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Winchester v. Loud | 130 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mich. | affirmed |
| Elliott v. Sackett | 132 (1883) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | reversed |
| Ewell v. Daggs | 143 (1883) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.W.D. Tex. | affirmed |
| The Belgenland | 153 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.E.D. Pa. | mandamus denied |
| Shainwald v. Lewis | 158 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. Nev. | affirmed |
| Barton v. Geiler | 161 (1883) | Waite | none | none | Tenn. | affirmed |
| Goldenberg v. Murphy | 162 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Gage v. Pumpelly | 164 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | dismissal denied |
| Hilton v. Dickinson | 165 (1883) | Waite | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | dismissed |
| Ludloff v. United States | 176 (1883) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.D. Md. | affirmed |
| City of Savannah v. Kelly | 184 (1883) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ga. | affirmed |
| City of Savannah v. Martin | 191 (1882) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ga. | affirmed |
| United States v. Britton I | 192 (1883) | Woods | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | certification |
| United States v. Britton II | 193 (1883) | Woods | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | certification |
| United States v. Britton III | 199 (1883) | Woods | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | certification |
| United States v. Britton IV | 207 (1883) | per curiam | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | dismissed |
| Kirkbride v. Lafayette County | 208 (1883) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mo. | reversed |
| St. Paul and Chicago Railway Company v. McLean | 212 (1883) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Manhattan Medicine Company v. Wood | 218 (1883) | Field | none | none | C.C.D. Me. | affirmed |
| Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company v. United States | 228 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.W.D. Tenn. | reversed |
| Ex parte Norton | 237 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.E.D. La. | mandamus granted |
| District of Columbia v. Washington Market Company | 243 (1883) | Matthews | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Wilkins v. Ellett | 256 (1883) | Gray | none | none | C.C.W.D. Tenn. | reversed |
| Hampton v. Phipps | 260 (1883) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.D.S.C. | reversed |
| Basket v. Hassell | 267 (1883) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.D. Ind. | rehearing denied |
| Rountree v. Smith | 269 (1883) | Miller | none | none | C.C.W.D. Wis. | affirmed |
| Little Miami and Columbus and Xenia Railroad Company v. United States | 277 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ohio | reversed |
| Wright v. United States | 281 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.M.D. Tenn. | affirmed |
| Lewis v. City of Shreveport | 282 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. La. | affirmed |
| Farlow v. Kelly | 288 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| Ensminger v. Powers | 292 (1883) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.W.D. Tenn. | multiple |
| The Jesse Williamson, Jr. | 305 (1883) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | dismissed |
| Tutton v. Viti | 312 (1883) | Gray | none | none | C.C.E.D. Pa. | affirmed |
| Howard County v. Booneville Central National Bank | 314 (1883) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company v. Fifth Baptist Church | 317 (1883) | Field | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| United States v. Ambrose | 336 (1883) | Miller | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ohio | certification |
| The Tornado | 342 (1883) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.D. La. | affirmed |
| The Connemara | 352 (1883) | Gray | none | none | C.C.D. La. | affirmed |
| Adriatic Fire Insurance Company v. Treadwell | 361 (1883) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| Scruggs' Executor v. Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company | 368 (1883) | Woods | none | none | C.C.N.D. Miss. | affirmed |
| Boese v. King | 379 (1883) | Harlan | none | Matthews | N.Y. | affirmed |
| Warren v. King | 389 (1883) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.D. Ind. | affirmed |
| In re Devoe Manufacturing Company | 401 (1883) | Blatchford | none | none | D.N.J. | prohibition denied |
| Post v. Pearson | 418 (1883) | Gray | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Dakota | affirmed |
| Hawkins v. Blake | 422 (1883) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.E.D.N.C. | affirmed |
| Clark v. Barnard | 436 (1883) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.D. Mass. | reversed |
| Manning v. Cape Ann Isinglass and Glue Company | 462 (1883) | Woods | none | none | C.C.D. Mass. | affirmed |
| Downton v. Yaeger Milling Company | 466 (1883) | Woods | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| Gross v. United States Mortgage Company | 477 (1883) | Harlan | none | none | Ill. | affirmed |
| United States v. 43 Gallons of Whisky | 491 (1883) | Field | none | none | C.C.D. Minn. | reversed |
| Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Luchs | 498 (1883) | Field | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Western Pacific Railroad Company v. United States | 510 (1883) | Miller | none | none | C.C.D. Cal. | affirmed |
| Vance v. Vance | 514 (1883) | Miller | none | none | La. | affirmed |
| Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company v. District of Columbia | 522 (1883) | Miller | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Ruggles v. Illinois | 526 (1883) | Waite | Harlan | none | Ill. | affirmed |
| Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Illinois | 541 (1883) | Waite | Field; Harlan | none | Ill. | affirmed |
| Hawley v. Fairbanks | 543 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | dismissed |
| Ex parte Hung Hang | 552 (1883) | Waite | none | none | S.F. Police Ct. | habeas corpus denied |
| Meath v. Phillips County | 553 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.E.D. Ark. | affirmed |
| Ex parte Tom Tong | 556 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. Cal. | remanded |
| Gibson v. Bruce | 561 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| New Jersey Zinc Company v. Trotter | 564 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D.N.J. | dismissed |
| Ex parte Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company | 566 (1883) | Waite | none | none | C.C.W.D. Va. | mandamus denied |
| Scarborough v. Pargoud | 567 (1883) | Waite | none | none | La. | dismissed |
| Louisiana ex rel. New Orleans Gas Light Company v. City of New Orleans | 568 (1883) | Waite | none | none | La. | dismissed |