List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 227

This is a list of cases reported in volume 227 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1913.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 227 U.S.

The Supreme Court is established by Article Three of [the United States Constitution|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 227 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

Portrait	Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate	Tenure on Supreme Court
	Edward Douglass White	Chief Justice	Louisiana	Melville Fuller		– May 19, 1921
	Joseph McKenna	Associate Justice	California	Stephen Johnson Field		– January 5, 1925
	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	Horace Gray		– January 12, 1932
	William R. Day	Associate Justice	Ohio	George Shiras Jr.		– November 13, 1922
	Horace Harmon Lurton	Associate Justice	Tennessee	Rufus W. Peckham		– July 12, 1914
	Charles Evans Hughes	Associate Justice	New York	David Josiah Brewer		– June 10, 1916
	Willis Van Devanter	Associate Justice	Wyoming	Edward Douglass White		– June 2, 1937
	Joseph Rucker Lamar	Associate Justice	Georgia	William Henry Moody		– January 2, 1916
	Mahlon Pitney	Associate Justice	New Jersey	John Marshall Harlan		– December 31, 1922

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.
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
"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 227 U.S.

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Yazoo & M.V.R.R. Co. v. Greenwood G. Co.		White	none	none	Miss.	reversed
Wynkoop et al. Co. v. Gaines		White	none	none	2d Cir.	dismissed
Virtue v. Creamery et al. Co.		McKenna	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Cameron et al. Co. v. Knoxville		McKenna	none	none	C.C.S.D. Iowa	affirmed
Gray v. Taylor		Holmes	none	none	N.M.	affirmed
Michigan C.R.R. Co. v. Vreeland		Lurton	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	reversed
Grant v. United States		Hughes	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Davis v. Las O. Co.		Lurton	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
ICC v. Louisville & N.R.R. Co.		Lamar	none	none	Comm. Ct.	reversed
Guardian A. Co. v. Quintana		White	none	none	D.P.R.	multiple
De Bary & Co. v. Louisiana		White	none	none	La.	affirmed
Texas et al. R.R. Co. v. Sabine T. Co.		McKenna	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	reversed
Heike v. United States		Holmes	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
American R.R. Co. v. Didricksen		Lurton	none	none	D.P.R.	reversed
Ross v. Oregon		VanDevanter	none	none	Or.	dismissed
United States v. Harvey S. Co.		White	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Robinson v. Lundrigan		McKenna	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Guttierrez v. Graham		Holmes	none	none	D.P.R.	affirmed
Chicago et al. R.R. Co. v. Schwyhart		Holmes	none	none	Mo. App.	affirmed
Brooklyn et al. Co. v. Miller		Holmes	none	none	Ariz.	affirmed
United States v. Winslow		Holmes	none	none	D. Mass.	affirmed
St. Louis S.R.R. Co. v. Alexander		Day	none	none	S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Scott v. Lattig		VanDevanter	none	none	Idaho	reversed
Johnson v. Hoy		Lamar	none	none	N.D. Ill.	dismissed
New York et al. R.R. Co. v. Hudson Cnty.		White	none	none	N.J. Sup. Ct.	reversed
St. Louis et al. R.R. Co. v. Edwards		White	none	none	Ark.	reversed
Porto Rico (sic) v. Rosaly y C.		White	none	none	P.R.	reversed
Home T. & T. Co. v. City of Los Angeles		White	none	none	S.D. Cal.	reversed
Winfree v. Northern P.R.R. Co.		McKenna	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Hutchinson v. Valdosta		McKenna	none	none	C.C.S.D. Ga.	affirmed
Hoke v. United States		McKenna	none	none	E.D. Tex.	affirmed
Athanasaw v. United States		McKenna	none	none	S.D. Fla.	affirmed
Bennett v. United States		McKenna	none	none	6th Cir.	affirmed
Harris v. United States		McKenna	none	none	6th Cir.	affirmed
Stuart v. Union P.R.R. Co.		McKenna	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Northern P.R.R. Co. v. United States		McKenna	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Wadkins v. Producers O. Co.		McKenna	none	none	La.	affirmed
Cordova v. Folgueras y R.		Holmes	none	none	multiple	affirmed
Luke v. Smith		Holmes	none	none	Ariz.	affirmed
Porto Rico (sic) v. Title et al. Co.		Holmes	none	none	3d Cir.	affirmed
Crenshaw v. Arkansas		Day	none	none	Ark.	reversed
Rogers v. Arkansas		Day	none	none	Ark.	reversed
James v. Stone & Co.		Day	none	none	4th Cir.	dismissed
Lovell v. Newman & Son		Day	none	none	5th Cir.	dismissed
Bartell v. United States		Day	none	none	D.S.D.	affirmed
Troxell v. Delaware et al. R.R. Co.		Day	none	none	3d Cir.	reversed
United States ex rel. Champion L. Co. v. Fisher		Day	none	none	D.C. Cir.	dismissed
United States ex rel. Foreman v. Meyer		Day	none	none	D.C. Cir.	dismissed
Hampton v. St. Louis et al. R.R. Co.		Lurton	none	none	C.C.E.D. Ark.	reversed
Wells Fargo & Co. v. Neiman-Marcus Co.		Lurton	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	reversed
Bradley v. Richmond		Lurton	none	none	Va.	affirmed
United States v. Mason		Lurton	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Zimmerman v. Harding		Lurton	none	none	D.P.R.	affirmed
Fraternal Mystic Cir. v. Snyder		Hughes	none	none	Tenn.	affirmed
Bacon v. Illinois		Hughes	none	none	Ill.	affirmed
Smoot v. Heyl		Hughes	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Svor v. Morris		VanDevanter	none	none	Minn.	reversed
Ross v. Stewart		VanDevanter	none	none	Okla.	affirmed
Matheson v. United States		Lamar	none	none	D. Alaska	affirmed
Grand Trunk W.R.R. Co. v. City of South Bend		Lamar	none	none	Ind.	reversed
Southern P. Co. v. City of Portland		Lamar	none	none	C.C.D. Or.	affirmed
Van Iderstine v. National D. Co.		Lamar	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
Rosaly v. Graham y F.		Pitney	none	none	P.R.	affirmed
Ensign v. Pennsylvania		Pitney	none	none	Pa.	affirmed
Southern P. Co. v. Schuyler		Pitney	none	none	Utah	affirmed
Starr v. Long Jim		Pitney	none	none	Wash.	affirmed
Zavelo v. Reeves		Pitney	none	none	Ala.	affirmed
Marrone v. Washington Jockey Club		Holmes	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
Baxter v. Buchholz et al. Co.		Holmes	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	dismissed
Kansas City S.R.R. Co. v. Carl		Lurton	none	none	Ark.	reversed
Missouri et al. R.R. Co. v. Harriman		Lurton	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	reversed