# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 216

This is a list of cases reported in volume 216 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1910.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 216 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 216 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) |
| David Josiah Brewer | Associate Justice | Kansas | Stanley Matthews | December 18, 1889 (53–11) | January 6, 1890 – March 28, 1910 (Died) |
| Edward Douglass White | Associate Justice | Louisiana | Samuel Blatchford | February 19, 1894 (Acclamation) | March 12, 1894 – December 18, 1910 (Continued as chief justice) |
| 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) |
| William Henry Moody | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Henry Billings Brown | December 12, 1906 (Acclamation) | December 17, 1906 – November 20, 1910 (Retired) |
| Horace Harmon Lurton | Associate Justice | Tennessee | Rufus W. Peckham | December 20, 1909 (Acclamation) | January 3, 1910 – July 12, 1914 (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.
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 216 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| Western Union Telegraph Company v. Kansas ex rel. Coleman | 1 (1910) | Harlan | White | Holmes | Kan. | reversed |
| Pullman Company v. Kansas ex rel. Coleman | 56 (1910) | Harlan | White | Holmes | Kan. | reversed |
| Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company v. J. Slade and E.M. Pless | 78 (1910) | White | none | none | Ga. Ct. App. | dismissed |
| Conley v. Ballinger | 84 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | C.C.D. Kan. | reversed |
| King v. West Virginia | 92 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | W. Va. | dismissed |
| Babbitt v. Dutcher | 102 (1910) | Fuller | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | reversed |
| In re Elkus | 115 (1910) | Fuller | none | none | 2d Cir. | certification |
| Woodside v. Beckham | 117 (1910) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.N.D. Iowa | affirmed |
| Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Mazursky | 122 (1910) | Fuller | none | none | S.C. | affirmed |
| Zartman v. First National Bank of Waterloo | 134 (1910) | Fuller | none | none | Sup. Ct. N.Y. | affirmed |
| Childers v. McClaughry | 139 (1910) | Fuller | none | none | D. Kan. | dismissed |
| Ludwig v. Western Union Telegraph Company | 146 (1910) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.E.D. Ark. | affirmed |
| Western Union Telegraph Company v. Andrews | 165 (1910) | Day | none | none | C.C.E.D. Ark. | reversed |
| Alvarez y Sanchez v. United States | 167 (1910) | Harlan | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Monongahela Bridge Company v. United States | 177 (1910) | Harlan | none | none | W.D. Pa. | affirmed |
| Citizens' Central National Bank of New York v. Appleton | 196 (1910) | Harlan | none | none | Sup. Ct. N.Y. | affirmed |
| Great Northern Railroad Company v. Minnesota | 206 (1910) | Harlan | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Chicago Great Western Railway Company v. Minnesota | 234 (1910) | Harlan | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Ballinger v. United States ex rel. Frost | 240 (1910) | Brewer | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Central Trust Company v. Central Trust Company of Illinois | 251 (1910) | Brewer | none | none | 7th Cir. | affirmed |
| Missouri Pacific Railway Company v. Kansas ex rel. State Board of Railroad Commissioners | 262 (1910) | White | none | none | Kan. | affirmed |
| Hannis Distilling Company v. City of Baltimore | 285 (1910) | White | none | none | C.C.D. Md. | dismissed |
| Fraenkl v. Cerecedo Hermanos | 295 (1910) | White | none | none | D.P.R. | affirmed |
| Pendleton v. United States | 305 (1910) | McKenna | none | none | Phil. | affirmed |
| Penman v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company | 311 (1910) | McKenna | none | none | 3d Cir. | affirmed |
| Blake v. Openhym | 322 (1910) | McKenna | none | none | 8th Cir. | dismissed |
| Albright v. Sandoval I | 331 (1910) | McKenna | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. | affirmed |
| Albright v. Sandoval II | 342 (1910) | McKenna | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. | dismissed |
| W.J. Moxley Corp. v. Hertz | 344 (1910) | McKenna | none | none | 7th Cir. | certification |
| Laurel Hill Cemetery v. City and County of San Francisco | 358 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | Cal. | affirmed |
| Hawaiian Trust Company, Ltd. v. Von Holt | 367 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. | affirmed |
| United States v. Plowman | 372 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | 9th Cir. | reversed |
| Saxlehner v. Wagner | 375 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | 6th Cir. | affirmed |
| Harris v. First National Bank of Mt. Pleasant | 382 (1910) | Day | none | none | E.D. Tex. | affirmed |
| Olmsted v. Olmsted | 386 (1910) | Day | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | affirmed |
| Forbes v. State Council of Virginia, Junior Order of United American Mechanics of Virginia | 396 (1910) | Day | none | none | Va. | dismissed |
| Southern Railroad Company v. Greene | 400 (1910) | Day | none | none | Ala. | reversed |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Gaston | 418 (1910) | Day | none | none | Ala. | reversed |
| Wright v. Georgia Railroad and Banking Company | 420 (1910) | Lurton | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ga. | affirmed |
| Toxaway Hotel Company v. Smathers and Company | 439 (1910) | Lurton | none | none | 4th Cir. | certification |
| Friday v. Hall and Kaul Company | 449 (1910) | Lurton | none | none | 3d Cir. | reversed |
| Pickett v. United States | 456 (1910) | Lurton | none | none | C.C.W.D. Okla. | affirmed |
| Haas v. Henkel | 462 (1910) | Lurton | Brewer | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Peckham v. Henkel | 483 (1910) | Lurton | Brewer | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Price v. Henkel | 488 (1910) | Lurton | Brewer | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company v. United States | 494 (1910) | Brewer | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
| J.J. McCaskill Company v. United States | 504 (1910) | McKenna | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Parish of Orleans v. New York Life Insurance Company | 517 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | C.C.E.D. La. | affirmed |
| Starkweather v. Jenner | 524 (1910) | Lurton | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Interstate Commerce Commission v. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company | 531 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Interstate Commerce Commission v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company | 538 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | C.C.D. Minn. | affirmed |
| Knapp v. Milwaukee Trust Company | 545 (1910) | Day | none | none | 7h Cir. | affirmed |
| Franklin v. United States | 559 (1910) | Fuller | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | dismissed |
| Osborn v. Froyseth | 571 (1910) | Lurton | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. North Dakota ex rel. McCue | 579 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | N.D. | affirmed |
| Williams v. First National Bank of Pauls Valley | 582 (1910) | White | none | none | Okla. | affirmed |
| Garcia Maytin v. Vela | 598 (1910) | Holmes | none | none | P.R. | multiple |
| Weir v. Rountree | 607 (1910) | per curiam | none | none | 8th Cir. | dismissed |
| David Kaufman and Sons Company v. Smith | 610 (1910) | per curiam | none | none | C.C.D.N.J. | dismissed |
| Lewis v. United States | 611 (1910) | per curiam | none | none | E.D. Mo. | dismissed |
| Mallers v. Commercial Loan and Trust Company | 613 (1910) | per curiam | none | none | Ill. | dismissed |