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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 210

Coordinates: 38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
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Supreme Court of the United States
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38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
EstablishedMarch 4, 1789; 235 years ago (1789-03-04)
LocationWashington, D.C.
Coordinates38°53′26″N 77°00′16″W / 38.89056°N 77.00444°W / 38.89056; -77.00444
Composition methodPresidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorized byConstitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term lengthlife tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions9 (by statute)
Websitesupremecourt.gov

This is a list of cases reported in volume 210 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1908.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 210 U.S.

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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).[1] 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 210 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

Portrait 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

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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.

List of cases in volume 210 U.S.

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Case Name Page & year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition
Empire State Cattle Co. v. Atchison et al. R.R. Co. 1 (1908) White none none 8th Cir. affirmed
St. Paul et al. R.R. Co. v. Donohue 21 (1908) White none none Minn. affirmed
Gazlay v. Williams 41 (1908) Fuller none none 6th Cir. affirmed
Quick Bear v. Leupp 50 (1908) Fuller none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
Brown v. Fletcher's Estate 82 (1908) Brewer none none Mich. affirmed
La Bourgogne 95 (1908) White none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Farrell v. Lockhart 142 (1908) White none none Utah reversed
Kealoha v. Castle 149 (1908) White none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Haw. affirmed
Boston & M.R.R. Co. v. Gokey 155 (1908) Peckham none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Sanderson v. United States 168 (1908) Peckham none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Cleveland et al. R.R. Co. v. Porter 177 (1908) McKenna none none Ind. App. affirmed
Mobile et al. R.R. Co. v. Mississippi 187 (1908) McKenna none none Miss. affirmed
Old Dominion et al. Co. v. Lewisohn 206 (1908) Holmes none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Galveston et al. R.R. Co. v. Texas 217 (1908) Holmes none Harlan Tex. reversed
Fauntleroy v. Lum 230 (1908) Holmes none White Miss. reversed
In re Wood 246 (1908) Day none Brewer 8th Cir. certification
City of St. Louis v. United Rys. Co. 266 (1908) Day none none C.C.E.D. Mo. reversed
St. Louis et al. R.R. Co. v. Taylor 281 (1908) Moody none none Ark. reversed
Municipality of Ponce v. Roman C.C. 296 (1908) Fuller none none P.R. affirmed
Delmar Jockey Club v. Missouri 324 (1908) White none none Mo. dismissed
Kansas City N.R.R. Co. v. Zimmerman 336 (1908) Holmes none none C.C.D. Kan. dismissed
Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus 339 (1908) Day none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Scribner v. Straus 352 (1908) Day none none 2d Cir. affirmed
Globe Newspaper Co. v. Walker 356 (1908) Day none none C.C.D. Mass. reversed
Western Loan & Sav. Co. v. Butte & B.C.M. Co. 368 (1908) Day none none C.C.D. Mont. reversed
Londoner v. City and County of Denver 373 (1908) Moody none none Colo. reversed
Pierce v. Creecy 387 (1908) Moody none none C.C.E.D. Mo. affirmed
Consolidated P.B. Co. v. Eastern P.B. Co. 405 (1908) McKenna none Harlan 1st Cir. affirmed

Notes and references

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  1. ^ "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

See also

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