List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 164

This is a list of cases reported in volume 164 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1896.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 164 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. Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to seven, nine, ten, and back to nine justices.
When the cases in volume 164 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

Portrait	Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate	Tenure on Supreme Court
	Melville Fuller	Chief Justice	Illinois	Morrison Waite		– July 4, 1910
	Stephen Johnson Field	Associate Justice	California	newly created seat		– December 1, 1897
	John Marshall Harlan	Associate Justice	Kentucky	David Davis		– October 14, 1911
	Horace Gray	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Nathan Clifford		– September 15, 1902
	David Josiah Brewer	Associate Justice	Kansas	Stanley Matthews		– March 28, 1910
	Henry Billings Brown	Associate Justice	Michigan	Samuel Freeman Miller		– May 28, 1906
	George Shiras Jr.	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Joseph P. Bradley		– February 23, 1903
	Edward Douglass White	Associate Justice	Louisiana	Samuel Blatchford		– December 18, 1910
	Rufus W. Peckham	Associate Justice	New York	Howell Edmunds Jackson		– October 24, 1909

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 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. 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 164 U.S.

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Bear Lake et al. Co. v. Garland		Peckham	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	affirmed
American R.M. Co. v. Pennock & S. Co.		Fuller	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
United States v. Gilliat		Peckham	none	none	Ct. Cl.	dismissed
United States v. Hewecker		Fuller	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	dismissed
United States v. Kurtz		Brown	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Saltonstall v. Birtwell		Shiras	none	Fuller	1st Cir.	affirmed
McElroy v. United States		Fuller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Ark.	reversed
United States v. McMahon		Brown	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Parsons v. Venzke		Brewer	none	none	N.D. Dist. Ct.	affirmed
Central P.R.R. Co. v. United States		Peckham	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
White v. United States		Peckham	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ala.	affirmed
Press Pub. Co. v. Monroe		Gray	none	none	2d Cir.	dismissed
Fallbrook I. Dist. v. Bradley		Peckham	none	none	C.C.S.D. Cal.	reversed
Tregea v. Modesto I. Dist.		Brewer	none	Harlan	Cal.	dismissed
Wisconsin C.R.R. Co. v. United States		Fuller	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
United States v. Verdier		Brown	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Brown v. United States		Gray	none	Brewer	C.C.W.D. Ark.	reversed
Prairie S. Nat'l Bank v. United States		White	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Draper v. United States		White	none	none	C.C.D. Mont.	reversed
Wilson v. Kiesel		Fuller	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	dismissed
Fowler v. Lamson		Peckham	none	none	Ill.	dismissed
Lalone v. United States		Peckham	none	none	C.C.E.D. Wis.	reversed
Old Jordan et al. Co. v. Société Anonyme		Brown	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	affirmed
Wabash W. Ry. v. Brow		Fuller	none	none	6th Cir.	reversed
National A. Soc'y v. Spiro		Fuller	none	none	6th Cir.	certification
United States v. Delaney		Peckham	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
McKee v. United States		Peckham	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Glover v. United States		White	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Coughran v. Bigelow		Shiras	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	affirmed
Cake v. Mohun		Brown	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Citizens' Bank v. Cannon		Shiras	none	none	C.C.W.D. La.	reversed
Carothers v. Mayer		Brown	none	none	Mont.	dismissed
Central et al. Co. v. Wright		Brown	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ga.	affirmed
Gonzales v. French		Shiras	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz.	affirmed
McClellan v. Chipman T. Nat'l Bank		White	none	none	Mass. Super. Ct.	affirmed
Edgington v. United States		Shiras	none	none	C.C.S.D. Iowa	reversed
Noble v. Mitchell		White	none	none	Ala.	affirmed
United States v. Elliott		Shiras	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Stone v. United States		Brewer	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Northern P.R.R. Co. v. Colburn		Brewer	none	none	Mont.	reversed
Acers v. United States		Brewer	none	none	W.D. Ark.	affirmed
Atlantic & P. Ry. Co. v. Laird		White	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Missouri P. Ry. Co. v. Nebraska		Gray	none	none	Neb.	reversed
Warner v. Texas P. Ry. Co.		Gray	none	none	5th Cir.	reversed
Chapman v. United States		Fuller	none	none	D.C. Cir.	dismissed
Perrine v. Slack		Fuller	none	none	D.C. Cir.	dismissed
Prather v. United States		Fuller	none	none	D.C. Cir.	dismissed
Chicago & N. Ry. Co. v. City of Chicago		Harlan	none	none	Ill.	dismissed
The Kate		Harlan	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
New Orleans W.W. Co. v. City of New Orleans		Harlan	none	none	C.C.E.D. La.	affirmed
Grimes D.G. Co. v. Malcolm		Harlan	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Allen v. United States		Brown	none	none	C.C.W.D. Ark.	affirmed
Willard v. Wood		Fuller	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
United States v. Oregon & C.R.R. Co.		Fuller	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Rowe v. United States		Harlan	none	none	C.C.W.D. Ark.	reversed
Rogers L.M.W. v. American E. Co.		Harlan	none	none	Iowa	reversed
Covington et al. Co. v. Sandford		Harlan	none	none	Ky.	reversed
Maish v. Arizona		Brewer	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Ariz.	affirmed
Gonzales v. Cunningham		Fuller	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. N.M.	affirmed
Starr v. United States		White	none	none	C.C.W.D. Ark.	reversed
In re Atlantic City R.R. Co.		Fuller	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	mandamus denied
Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Bloom's Adm'r		Shiras	none	none	5th Cir.	affirmed
Mills v. United States		Peckham	none	none	C.C.W.D. Ark.	reversed
Osborne v. Florida		Peckham	none	none	Fla.	affirmed
Nofire v. United States		Brewer	none	none	C.C.W.D. Ark.	reversed
Ford v. Delta & P.L. Co.		Brewer	none	none	C.C.S.D. Miss.	affirmed
France v. United States		Peckham	none	none	S.D. Ohio	reversed
Bushnell v. Leland		White	none	none	D. Conn.	affirmed
United States v. Northwestern et al. Co.		White	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Ex parte Jones		Brown	none	none	1st Cir.	mandamus denied
Carver v. United States		Brown	none	none	C.C.W.D. Ark.	reversed