List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 266

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Authorised by	Constitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term length	life tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions	9 (by statute)
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This is a list of cases reported in volume 266 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1924 and 1925.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 266 U.S.

See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

See also: List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office

See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition

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 266 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
	William Howard Taft	Chief Justice	Connecticut	Edward Douglass White	June 30, 1921 (Acclamation)	July 11, 1921 – February 3, 1930 (Retired)
	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)
	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)

Citation style

See also: United States district court

See also: United States court of appeals

See also: United States federal courts

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 266 U.S.

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition
Ziang Sung Wan v. United States	1 (1924)	Brandeis	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Terminal Railroad Association v. United States	17 (1924)	Butler	none	none	E.D. Mo.	reversed
Love v. Griffith	32 (1924)	Holmes	none	none	Tex. Ct. App.	affirmed
McCarthy v. Arndstein	34 (1924)	Brandeis	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	reaffirmed
Michaelson v. United States ex rel. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company	42 (1924)	Sutherland	none	none	7th Cir.	certification
Air-Way Electric Appliance Corporation v. Day	71 (1924)	Butler	none	none	S.D. Ohio	reversed
Twin Falls Salmon River Land and Water Company v. Caldwell	85 (1924)	VanDevanter	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Davis v. Henderson	92 (1924)	Brandeis	none	none	Ark.	multiple
Chicago Great Western Railway Company v. Kendall	94 (1924)	Taft	none	none	S.D. Iowa	affirmed
Nassau Smelting and Refining Works, Ltd. v. United States	101 (1924)	Taft	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
James Shewan and Sons, Inc. v. United States	108 (1924)	Taft	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	reversed
Tod v. Waldman	113 (1924)	Taft	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Mellon v. Orinoco Iron Company	121 (1924)	Taft	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Avent v. United States	127 (1924)	Holmes	none	none	S.D. Ohio	transfer to 6th Cir.
Mackenzie v. A. Engelhard and Sons Company	131 (1924)	Holmes	none	none	6th Cir.	reversed
B. Fernandez and Brothers v. Ayllon y Ojeda	144 (1924)	Holmes	none	none	1st Cir.	reversed
Davis v. Kennedy	147 (1924)	Holmes	none	none	Tenn.	reversed
A.W. Duckett and Company v. United States	149 (1924)	Holmes	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh v. Smith	152 (1924)	VanDevanter	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Work v. United States ex rel. Lynn	161 (1924)	VanDevanter	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Gonsalves v. Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company	171 (1924)	McReynolds	none	none	E.D.N.Y.	reversed
Biddle v. Luvisch	173 (1924)	McReynolds	none	none	8th Cir.	dismissed
House v. Road Improvement District No. 2 of Conway County, Arkansas	175 (1924)	McReynolds	none	none	Ark.	dismissed
Southern Railway Company v. City of Durham	178 (1924)	McReynolds	none	none	N.C.	affirmed
Crouch v. United States	180 (1924)	McReynolds	none	none	E.D. Va.	remanded
Davis v. Currie	182 (1924)	McReynolds	none	none	S.C.	dismissed
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Hanna	184 (1924)	McReynolds	none	none	Ark.	dismissed
Erie Railroad Company v. Kirkendall	185 (1924)	McReynolds	none	none	Ohio Dist. Ct. App.	dismissed
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Western Crawford Road Improvement District	187 (1924)	Brandeis	none	none	Ark.	affirmed
United States v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company	191 (1924)	Brandeis	none	none	M.D. Pa.	reversed
Missouri ex rel. St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Company v. Taylor	200 (1924)	Brandeis	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Panama Canal Railway Company v. Rock	209 (1924)	Sutherland	none	Holmes	5th Cir.	reversed
Savage Arms Corporation v. United States	217 (1924)	Sutherland	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Silberschein v. United States	221 (1924)	Sutherland	none	none	E.D. Mich.	affirmed
Sunderland v. United States	226 (1924)	Sutherland	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
United States v. Moser	236 (1924)	Sutherland	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Miller v. Robertson	243 (1924)	Butler	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
Ferries Company v. United States	260 (1924)	Butler	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Gorham Manufacturing Company v. State Tax Commission of New York	265 (1924)	Sanford	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton, Ltd. v. State Tax Commission of New York	271 (1924)	Sanford	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Endicott Johnson Corporation v. Encyclopedia Press, Inc.	285 (1924)	Sanford	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Endicott Johnson Corporation v. Smith	291 (1924)	Sanford	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Sovereign Camp of Woodmen of the World v. O'Neill	292 (1924)	Sanford	none	none	N.D. Tex.	reversed
Oklahoma v. Texas	298 (1924)	VanDevanter	none	none	original	tax decree
United States v. Childs	304 (1924)	McKenna	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
White v. Stump	310 (1924)	VanDevanter	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Davis v. O'Hara	314 (1924)	Butler	none	none	Neb.	reversed
Gerdes v. Lustgarten	321 (1924)	Sanford	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
United States v. The Barque Thekla	328 (1924)	Holmes	none	none	2d Cir.	certification
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company v. Formica Insulating Company	342 (1924)	Taft	none	none	6th Cir.	affirmed
In re East River Towing Company, Inc.	355 (1924)	Holmes	none	none	2d Cir.	certification
Campbell v. United States	368 (1924)	Butler	none	none	S.D. Ohio	affirmed
National Paper and Type Company v. Bowers	373 (1924)	McKenna	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
United States v. Weissman	377 (1924)	Holmes	none	none	D. Conn.	dismissed
Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Road Improvement District No. 3 of Sevier County, Arkansas	379 (1924)	VanDevanter	none	none	Ark.	affirmed
Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Dunken	389 (1924)	Sutherland	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	reversed
Davis v. Manry	401 (1925)	McKenna	none	none	Ga. Ct. App.	reversed
Sanitary District of Chicago v. United States	405 (1925)	Holmes	none	none	N.D. Ill.	injunction granted
The Panoil	433 (1925)	McReynolds	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
Fullerton-Krueger Lumber Company v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company	435 (1925)	McReynolds	none	none	Minn.	affirmed
Delaware and Hudson Company v. United States	438 (1925)	McReynolds	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Robins Dry Dock and Repair Company v. Dahl	449 (1925)	McReynolds	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	reversed
Behn, Meyer and Company, Ltd. v. Miller	457 (1925)	McReynolds	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Compagnie Internationale de Produits Alimentaires, S.A. v. Miller	473 (1925)	McReynolds	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
United States v. Village of Hubbard	474 (1925)	Brandeis	none	McReynolds	N.D. Ohio	reversed
Morrison v. Work	481 (1925)	Brandeis	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
United States Bedding Company v. United States	491 (1925)	Brandeis	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Law v. United States	494 (1925)	Brandeis	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Hygrade Provision Company, Inc. v. Sherman	497 (1925)	Sutherland	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas v. Wilkinson	503 (1925)	Sutherland	none	none	N.D. Tex.	dismissed
Webster v. Fall	507 (1925)	Sutherland	none	none	W.D. Okla.	reversed
Norton v. Larney	511 (1925)	Sutherland	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Erie Coal and Coke Corporation v. United States	518 (1925)	Butler	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company v. Groeger	521 (1925)	Butler	none	none	6th Cir.	reversed
United States v. Morrow	531 (1925)	Sanford	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Kunhardt and Company, Inc. v. United States	537 (1925)	Sanford	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
L. Richardson and Company, Inc. v. United States	541 (1925)	Sanford	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Ebert v. Poston	548 (1925)	Brandeis	none	none	Mich.	reversed
Ozark Pipe Line Corporation v. Monier	555 (1925)	Sutherland	none	Brandeis	W.D. Mo.	reversed
Michigan Public Utilities Commission v. Duke	570 (1925)	Butler	none	none	E.D. Mich.	affirmed

Notes and references

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

External links

• [1] Case reports in volume 266 from Library of Congress
• [2] Case reports in volume 266 from Court Listener
• [3] Case reports in volume 266 from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
• [4] Case reports in volume 266 from Google Scholar
• [5] Case reports in volume 266 from Justia
• [6] Case reports in volume 266 from Open Jurist
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