List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 241

This is a list of cases reported in volume 241 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1916.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 241 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 241 were decided the Court comprised the following eight members, following Justice Lamar's death in January 1916:

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
	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
	Mahlon Pitney	Associate Justice	New Jersey	John Marshall Harlan		– December 31, 1922
	James Clark McReynolds	Associate Justice	Tennessee	Horace Harmon Lurton		– January 31, 1941

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
"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 241 U.S.

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower Court	Disposition
Chin Fong v. Backus		McKenna	none	none	N.D. Cal.	dismissed
Kelly v. Griffin		Holmes	none	none	N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Osborne v. Gray		Hughes	none	none	Tenn.	affirmed
G. and C. Merriam Co. v. Saalfield and Ogilvie		Pitney	none	none	N.D. Ohio	affirmed
Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Rigsby		Pitney	none	none	5th Cir.	affirmed
Richardson v. Fajardo Sugar Company		McReynolds	none	none	D.P.R.	affirmed
Rosenberger v. Pacific Express Company		White	none	none	Mo.	reversed
Menasha Paper Company v. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company		McKenna	none	none	Wis.	affirmed
United States v. New South Farm and Home Company		McKenna	none	none	S.D. Fla.	reversed
United States v. Lombardo		McKenna	none	none	W.D. Wash.	affirmed
McFarland v. American Sugar Refining Company		Holmes	none	none	E.D. La.	affirmed
Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Wall		VanDevanter	none	McReynolds	Mont.	reversed
Gidney v. Chappel		VanDevanter	none	none	Okla.	affirmed
Lámar v. United States		White	none	none	2d Cir.	affirmed
United States v. Archer		McKenna	none	Pitney	Ct. Cl.	reversed
White v. United States		McKenna	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
De la Rama v. De la Rama		Holmes	none	none	Phil.	affirmed
Johnson v. Root Manufacturing Company		Holmes	none	none	7th Cir.	affirmed
The Raithmoor		Hughes	none	none	E.D. Pa.	reversed
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Harrington		Hughes	none	none	Mo. Ct. App.	affirmed
Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Jones		McReynolds	none	none	La.	reversed
Maryland Dredging and Contracting Company v. United States		Holmes	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Georgia Florida and Alabama Railroad Company v. Blish Milling Company		Hughes	none	none	Ga. Ct. App.	affirmed
Stowe v. Harvey		McReynolds	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Lane v. United States ex rel. Mickadiet		White	none	none	D.C. Cir.	reversed
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company v. Bombolis		White	none	none	Minn.	affirmed
St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company v. Brown		White	none	none	Okla.	affirmed
Jacobs v. Southern Railroad Company		McKenna	none	none	Va.	affirmed
Baugham v. New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company		McKenna	none	none	Va.	affirmed
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Carnahan		McKenna	none	none	Va.	affirmed
Pacific Mail Steamship Company v. Schmidt		Holmes	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Terminal Taxicab Company, Inc. v. Kutz		Holmes	none	none	D.C. Cir.	affirmed
American Well Works Company v. Layne and Bowler Company		Holmes	none	none	E.D. Ark.	reversed
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company v. Stewart		Holmes	none	none	Ky.	affirmed
United States v. Coca Cola Company of Atlanta		Hughes	none	none	6th Cir.	reversed
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company v. Renn		VanDevanter	none	none	N.C.	affirmed
Bankers Trust Company v. Texas and Pacific Railroad Company		VanDevanter	none	none	N.D. Tex.	affirmed
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. De Atley		Pitney	none	none	Ky.	reversed
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Rankin		McReynolds	none	none	Tenn.	reversed
Wisconsin v. Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company		McReynolds	none	none	W.D. Wis.	affirmed
Southern Railroad Company v. Gray		McReynolds	none	none	N.C.	reversed
Brazee v. Michigan		McReynolds	none	none	Mich.	affirmed
Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad Company v. United States		White	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Cubbins v. Mississippi River Commission		White	none	none	N.D. Miss.	affirmed
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Harold		White	none	none	Kan.	reversed
United States v. Hemmer		McKenna	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
Merrill-Ruckgaber Company v. United States		McKenna	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
United States v. Jin Fuey Moy		Holmes	none	none	W.D. Pa.	affirmed
Russo-Chinese Bank v. National Bank of Commerce of Seattle		Hughes	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
St. Louis and Kansas City Land Company v. City of Kansas City		Hughes	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Levindale Lead and Zinc Mining Company v. Coleman		Hughes	none	none	Okla.	reversed
Pacific Live Stock Company v. Lewis		VanDevanter	none	none	D. Or.	affirmed
Montelibano y Ramos v. La Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas		Pitney	none	none	Phil.	affirmed
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Proffitt		Pitney	none	none	4th Cir.	affirmed
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company v. Bower		Pitney	none	none	Neb.	affirmed
San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway Company v. Wagner		Pitney	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	affirmed
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Kelly		Pitney	none	none	Ky.	reversed
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Gainey		Pitney	none	none	Ky.	reversed
Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad Company v. Campbell		Pitney	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Bingham v. Bradley		Pitney	none	none	N.D. Ill.	affirmed
New York Life Insurance Company v. Dunlevy		McReynolds	none	none	9th Cir.	affirmed
Duel v. Hollins		McReynolds	none	Pitney	2d Cir.	reversed
Virginia v. West Virginia		White	none	none	original	writ of execution denied
Missouri v. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company		White	none	none	original	procedural motion granted
Reid v. Fargo		White	none	none	2d Cir.	reversed
Lancaster v. Kathleen Oil Company		White	none	none	E.D. Okla.	reversed
New York ex rel. Kennedy v. Becker		White	none	none	N.Y. Sup. Ct.	affirmed
Ohio ex rel. Davis v. Hildebrant		White	none	none]	Ohio	affirmed
Brown v. Pacific Coast Coal Company		Holmes	none	none	9th Cir.	reversed
Knights of Pythias v. Mims		Holmes	none	none	Tex. Civ. App.	reversed
Southern Surety Company v. Oklahoma		VanDevanter	none	none	Oklahoma	affirmed
Dayton v. Stanard		VanDevanter	none	none	8th Cir.	affirmed
United States v. Nice		VanDevanter	none	none	D.S.D.	reversed
United States v. Quiver		VanDevanter	none	none	D.S.D.	affirmed
Abbott v. Brown		Pitney	none	none	S.D. Fla.	reversed
Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Hilton-Green		McReynolds	none	none	5th Cir.	reversed
Holmes v. Conway		McReynolds	none	none	Kan.	affirmed