# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 204

This is a list of cases reported in volume 204 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1907.

## Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 204 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 204 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |

## 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 204 U.S.

| Case Name | Page and year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| Jerome v. Cogswell | 1 (1907) | Fuller | none | none | Conn. | affirmed |
| Old Wayne Mutual Life Association of Indianapolis v. McDonough | 8 (1907) | Harlan | none | none | Ind. | reversed |
| Wilson v. Shaw | 24 (1907) | Brewer | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Bachtel v. Wilson I | 36 (1907) | Brewer | none | none | Ohio | dismissed |
| Bachtel v. Wilson II | 42 (1907) | Brewer | none | none | Ohio | dismissed |
| Kann v. King | 43 (1907) | White | none | none | D.C. Cir. | reversed |
| Garrozi v. Dastas | 64 (1907) | White | none | none | D.P.R. | reversed |
| Elder v. Colorado ex rel. Badgley | 85 (1907) | White | none | none | Colo. | dismissed |
| Newman v. Gates | 89 (1907) | White | none | none | Ind. | dismissed |
| Orcutt Company v. Green | 96 (1907) | Peckham | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| American Smelting and Refining Company v. Colorado ex rel. Lindsley | 103 (1907) | Peckham | none | none | Colo. | reversed |
| Cleveland Electric Railroad Company v. City of Cleveland | 116 (1907) | Peckham | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| United States v. G. Falk and Brother | 143 (1907) | McKenna | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| New York ex rel. Hatch v. Reardon | 152 (1907) | Holmes | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | affirmed |
| Ohio v. National Bank v. Hulitt | 162 (1907) | Day | none | none | 6th Cir. | affirmed |
| Zartarian v. Billings | 170 (1907) | Day | none | none | C.C.D. Mass. | affirmed |
| Wecker v. National Enameling and Stamping Company | 176 (1907) | Day | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| Shropshire, Woodliff and Company v. Bush | 186 (1907) | Moody | none | none | 6th Cir. | certification |
| Northern Lumber Company v. O'Brien | 190 (1907) | Harlan | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Montana Mining Company v. St. Louis Mining and Milling Company | 204 (1907) | Brewer | none | none | 9th Cir. | reversed |
| Erie Railroad Company v. Erie and Western Transport Company | 220 (1907) | Holmes | none | none | 7th Cir. | reversed |
| Crowe v. Trickey | 228 (1907) | Fuller | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. | affirmed |
| Crowe v. Harmon | 241 (1907) | Fuller | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz. | affirmed |
| Ballard v. Hunter | 241 (1907) | McKenna | none | none | Ark. | affirmed |
| East Central Eureka Mining Company v. Central Eureka Mining Company | 266 (1907) | Holmes | none | none | Cal. | affirmed |
| Armstrong v. Ashley | 272 (1907) | Peckham | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Merchants' Heat and Light Company v. Clow and Sons | 286 (1907) | Holmes | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Montana ex rel. Haire v. Rice | 291 (1907) | Moody | none | none | Mont. | affirmed |
| Walker v. McLoud | 302 (1907) | Peckham | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Bacon v. Walker | 311 (1907) | McKenna | none | none | Idaho | affirmed |
| Bown v. Walling | 320 (1907) | McKenna | none | none | Colo. | affirmed |
| City of Chicago v. Mills | 321 (1907) | Day | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Kansas v. United States | 331 (1907) | Fuller | none | none | original | dismissed |
| United States v. Hite | 343 (1907) | Fuller | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. United States ex rel. Kenyon | 349 (1907) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.D.R.I. | affirmed |
| Western Turf Association v. Greenberg | 359 (1907) | Harlan | none | none | Cal. | affirmed |
| Union Bridge Company v. United States | 364 (1907) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.W.D. Pa. | affirmed |
| Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Texas | 403 (1907) | Brewer | none | none | Tex. | affirmed |
| Wallace v. Adams | 415 (1907) | Brewer | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Texas and Pacific Railroad Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company | 426 (1907) | White | none | none | Tex. Civ. App. | reversed |
| Texas and Pacific Railroad Company v. Cisco Oil Mill | 449 (1907) | White | none | none | Tex. Civ. App. | reversed |
| American Railroad Company v. Castro | 453 (1907) | White | none | none | D.P.R. | dismissed |
| McKay v. Kalyton | 458 (1907) | White | none | none | Or. | reversed |
| Serra v. Mortiga | 470 (1907) | White | none | none | Phil. | affirmed |
| Iglehart v. Iglehart | 478 (1907) | Peckham | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| McGuire v. Gerstley | 489 (1907) | Peckham | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Clark v. Gerstley | 504 (1907) | Peckham | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Arthur v. Texas and Pacific Railroad Company | 505 (1907) | Peckham | none | none | 8th Cir. | reversed |
| Eau Claire National Bank v. Jackman | 522 (1907) | McKenna | none | none | Wis. | affirmed |
| Hammond v. Whittredge | 538 (1907) | McKenna | none | none | Mass. | affirmed |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Smith, Huggins and Company | 551 (1907) | McKenna | none | none | Tenn. | dismissed |
| United States v. Keatley | 562 (1907) | McKenna | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Osborne v. Clark | 565 (1907) | Holmes | none | none | Tenn. | dismissed |
| Mason City and Fort Dodge Railroad Company v. Boynton | 570 (1907) | Holmes | none | none | 8th Cir. | certification |
| Allen v. United States | 581 (1907) | Holmes | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Babcock | 585 (1907) | Holmes | none | none | C.C.D. Neb. | affirmed |
| Doyle v. London Guarantee and Accident Company, Ltd. | 599 (1907) | Day | none | none | 3d Cir. | certification |
| Computing Scale Company of America v. Automatic Scale Company | 609 (1907) | Day | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Duke v. Turner | 623 (1907) | Day | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. Okla. | affirmed |
| Smithers v. Smith | 632 (1907) | Moody | none | none | C.C.N.D. Tex. | reversed |
| Cunningham v. Springer | 647 (1907) | Moody | none | none | Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M. | affirmed |
| Coffey v. Harlan County | 659 (1907) | Moody | none | none | C.C.D. Neb. | affirmed |