# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 269

This is a list of cases reported in volume 269 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1925 and 1926.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 269 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 269 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
| Justice | Office | Home State | Succeeded | Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote) | Tenure on Supreme Court |
| William Howard Taft | Chief Justice | Connecticut | Edward Douglass White | June 30, 1921 (Acclamation) | July 11, 1921 – February 3, 1930 (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) |
| Edward Terry Sanford | Associate Justice | Tennessee | Mahlon Pitney | January 29, 1923 (Acclamation) | February 19, 1923 – March 8, 1930 (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) |

## 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 269 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| Patterson v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company | 1 (1925) | Brandeis | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| United States ex rel. Kennedy v. Tyler | 13 (1925) | Sutherland | none | none | W.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Agnello v. United States | 20 (1925) | Butler | none | none | 2d Cir. | multiple |
| Druggan v. Anderson | 36 (1925) | Holmes | none | none | N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| American Railway Express Company v. Daniel | 40 (1925) | Holmes | none | none | Ga. | reversed |
| Buckeye Coal and Railway Company v. Hocking Valley Railway Company | 42 (1925) | Taft | none | none | S.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| Donegan v. Dyson | 49 (1925) | Taft | none | none | S.D. Fla. | affirmed |
| Old Dominion Land Company v. United States | 55 (1925) | Holmes | none | none | 4th Cir. | affirmed |
| Western Union Telegraph Company v. Georgia | 67 (1925) | Holmes | none | none | Ga. | dismissed |
| Hicks v. Guinness | 71 (1925) | Holmes | none | none | 2d Cir. | multiple |
| Enrique del Pozo y Marcos v. Wilson Cypress Company | 82 (1925) | VanDevanter | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Lipshitz and Cohen v. United States | 90 (1925) | McReynolds | none | none | N.D. Ga. | affirmed |
| Margolin v. United States | 93 (1925) | McReynolds | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Woerishoffer v. United States | 102 (1925) | Brandeis | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Burk-Waggoner Oil Association v. Hopkins | 110 (1925) | Brandeis | none | none | N.D. Tex. | affirmed |
| Davis v. Alexander | 114 (1925) | Brandeis | none | none | Okla. | affirmed |
| Hicks v. Poe | 118 (1925) | Brandeis | none | none | 4th Cir. | affirmed |
| Freshman v. Atkins | 121 (1925) | Sutherland | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Gulf Refining Company v. United States | 125 (1925) | Sutherland | none | none | 5th Cir. | multiple |
| Anderson v. Clune | 140 (1925) | Sutherland | none | none | 9th Cir. | certification |
| Stilz v. United States | 144 (1925) | Butler | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Kansas City Structural Steel Company v. Arkansas ex rel. Ashley County | 148 (1925) | Butler | none | none | Ark. | affirmed |
| Arkansas v. Tennessee | 152 (1925) | Butler | none | none | original | boundary set |
| Davis v. John L. Roper Lumber Company | 158 (1925) | Butler | none | none | Va. | reversed |
| Stephenson v. Kirtley | 163 (1925) | Sanford | none | none | S.D.W. Va. | affirmed |
| Beazell v. Ohio | 167 (1925) | Stone | none | none | Ohio | affirmed |
| Arkansas ex rel. Utley v. St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company | 172 (1925) | Stone | none | none | Ark. | dismissed |
| Concrete Appliances Company v. Gomery | 177 (1925) | Stone | none | none | 3d Cir. | affirmed |
| Southern Electric Company v. Stoddard | 186 (1925) | Taft | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | dismissed |
| Central Union Telephone Company v. City of Edwardsville | 190 (1925) | Taft | none | none | Ill. | dismissed |
| United States v. Boston Insurance Company | 197 (1925) | McReynolds | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
| Edwards v. Douglas | 204 (1925) | Brandeis | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company | 217 (1925) | Brandeis | none | McReynolds; Stone | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| New York ex rel. Woodhaven Gas Light Company v. Public Service Commission of New York | 244 (1925) | Butler | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | affirmed |
| Work v. Louisiana | 250 (1925) | Sanford | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Matthews v. Huwe | 262 (1925) | Taft | none | none | Ohio Dist. Ct. App. | dismissed |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. United States | 266 (1925) | Holmes | none | none | 7th Cir. | reversed |
| Pacific American Fisheries v. Alaska | 269 (1925) | Holmes | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
| Henderson Water Company v. Corporation Commission of North Carolina | 278 (1925) | Taft | none | none | E.D.N.C. | affirmed |
| White v. Mechanics Securities Corporation | 283 (1925) | Holmes | none | none | multiple | affirmed |
| Ex parte Gruber | 302 (1925) | Sutherland | none | none | original | mandamus denied |
| United States v. New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company | 304 (1925) | Sanford | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| United States v. Robbins | 315 (1926) | Holmes | none | none | N.D. Cal. | reversed |
| New Jersey v. Sargent | 328 (1926) | VanDevanter | none | none | original | dismissed |
| First National Bank of Guthrie Center v. Anderson | 341 (1926) | VanDevanter | none | none | Iowa | reversed |
| Live Oak Water Users' Association v. Railroad Commission of California | 354 (1926) | McReynolds | none | none | Cal. | dismissed |
| United States v. Daugherty | 360 (1926) | McReynolds | none | none | 8th Cir. | reversed |
| O'Hara v. Luckenbach Steamship Company | 364 (1926) | Sutherland | none | none | 9th Cir. | reversed |
| American Steel Foundries v. Robertson | 372 (1926) | Sutherland | none | none | 7th Cir. | certification |
| Connally v. General Construction Company | 385 (1926) | Sutherland | none | none | W.D. Okla. | affirmed |
| Browning v. Hooper | 396 (1926) | Butler | none | none | N.D. Tex. | reversed |
| Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company v. Goneau | 406 (1926) | Sanford | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| United States v. River Rouge Improvement Company | 411 (1926) | Sanford | none | none | 6th Cir. | reversed |
| United States v. Anderson | 422 (1926) | Stone | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
| Provost v. United States | 443 (1926) | Stone | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Independent Wireless Telegraph Company v. Radio Corporation of America | 459 (1926) | Taft | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Trusler v. Crooks | 475 (1926) | McReynolds | none | none | W.D. Mo. | reversed |
| Bramwell v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company | 483 (1926) | Butler | none | none | 9th Cir. | affirmed |
| Price v. United States | 492 (1926) | Butler | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Stripe v. United States | 503 (1926) | Butler | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| United States v. Butterworth-Judson Corporation | 504 (1926) | Butler | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Metcalf and Eddy v. Mitchell | 514 (1926) | Stone | none | none | D. Mass. | multiple |