List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 75

This is a list of cases reported in volume 75 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1869.

Nominative reports

In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions.

John William Wallace

Starting with the 66th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was John William Wallace. Wallace was Reporter of Decisions from 1863 to 1874, covering volumes 68 through 90 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 23 of his Wallace's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Hudson Canal Co v. Pennsylvania Coal Co. is 75 U.S. 276.
Wallace's Reports were the final nominative reports for the US Supreme Court; starting with volume 91, cases were identified simply as " U.S. ".

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 75 U.S. (8 Wall.)

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.
To prevent President Andrew Johnson from appointing any justices, a hostile Congress passed the Judicial Circuits Act of 1866, eliminating three of the 10 seats from the Supreme Court as they became vacant, and so potentially reducing the size of the court to seven justices. The vacancy caused by the death of Justice John Catron in 1865 had not been filled, so after Justice James Moore Wayne died in July 1867 there were eight justices left on the court when the cases in 75 U.S. were decided:

Portrait	Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate	Tenure on Supreme Court
	Salmon P. Chase	Chief [Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States\|Chief Justice]	Ohio	Roger B. Taney		– May 7, 1873
	Samuel Nelson	Associate Justice	New York	Smith Thompson		– November 28, 1872
	Robert Cooper Grier	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Henry Baldwin		– January 31, 1870
	Nathan Clifford	Associate Justice	Maine	Benjamin Robbins Curtis		– July 25, 1881
	Noah Haynes Swayne	Associate Justice	Ohio	John McLean		– January 24, 1881
	Samuel Freeman Miller	Associate Justice	Iowa	Peter Vivian Daniel		– October 13, 1890
	David Davis	Associate Justice	Illinois	John Archibald Campbell		– March 4, 1877
	Stephen Johnson Field	Associate Justice	California	newly created seat		– December 1, 1897

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.
Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.

"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 75 United States (8 Wall.)

Case Name	Page and year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion	Dissenting opinion	Lower court	Disposition
Thorington v. Smith		Chase	none	none	M.D. Ala.	reversed
Dean v. Younell's Administrator		Chase	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ga.	affirmed
The Eagle		Nelson	none	none	C.C.E.D. Mich.	affirmed
Mills v. Smith		Grier	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Stansbury v. United States		Davis	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Reeside v. United States		Nelson	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Furman v. Nichol		Davis	none	none	Tenn.	reversed
City of Memphis v. Dean		Nelson	none	none	C.C.W.D. Tenn.	reversed
United States v. Speed		Miller	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Ex parte Yerger		Chase	none	none	C.C.S.D. Miss.	affirmed
Nailor v. Williams		Miller	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Waring v. City of Mobile		Clifford	none	none	Ala.	affirmed
Woodruff v. Parham		Miller	none	Nelson	Ala.	affirmed
Hinson v. Lott		Miller	none	none	Ala.	affirmed
The Propeller Mohawk		Nelson	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
McKee v. United States		Davis	none	none	S.D. Ill.	affirmed
Paul v. Virginia		Field	none	none	Va.	affirmed
United States v. Lane		Davis	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
Seymour v. Freer		Swayne	none	Field	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Morey v. Lockwood		Nelson	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Drakely v. Gregg		Davis	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	reversed
Gibbons v. United States		Miller	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Hudson Canal Company v. Pennsylvania Coal Company		Clifford	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Patterson v. De la Ronde		Field	none	none	C.C.D. La.	affirmed
The Carroll		Davis	none	none	not indicated	affirmed
The Lucy		Chase	none	none	S.D. Fla.	dismissed
Mandelbaum v. Nevada		Nelson	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Nev.	reversed
Gibson v. Chouteau		Miller	none	none	Mo.	dismissed
Clark v. Reyburn		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D. Kan.	reversed
The Lady Franklin		Davis	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
United States v. Gilmore		Chase	none	none	Ct. Cl.	reversed
American Wood-Paper Company v. Heft		Nelson	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	dismissed
Alviso v. United States		Field	none	none	D. Cal.	affirmed
United States Express Company v. Kountze Brothers		Davis	none	none	C.C.D. Neb.	affirmed
Young v. Martin		Field	none	none	Sup. Ct. Terr. Utah	affirmed
Gilbert v. United States		Miller	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Kempner v. Churchill		Grier	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Mattingly v. Nye		Swayne	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	affirmed
Avendano v. Gay		Miller	none	none	C.C.D. La.	affirmed
The Baltimore		Clifford	none	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
Bardley v. Rhines' Administrators		Miller	none	none	C.C.W.D. Pa.	affirmed
Travelers' Insurance Company v. Mosley		Swayne	none	Clifford	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Blanchard v. Putnam		Clifford	none	Swayne	C.C.S.D. Ohio	reversed
Home of the Friendless v. Rouse		Davis	none	none	Mo.	reversed
Washington University v. Rouse		Davis	none	Miller	Mo.	reversed
Bronson v. Kimpton		Chase	none	none	N.Y.	reversed
Bennet v. Fowler		Nelson	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
The Camanche		Clifford	none	none	C.C.D. Cal.	affirmed
Allen v. Killinger		Miller	none	Nelson	C.C.N.D. Ill.	reversed
Parish v. United States		Field	none	none	Ct. Cl.	affirmed
Aldrich v. Aetna Insurance Company		Nelson	none	none	N.Y.	reversed
Kennedy v. Gibson		Swayne	none	none	C.C.D. Md.	affirmed
Morris's Cotton		Clifford	none	none	M.D. Ala.	reversed
Carpenter v. Dexter		Field	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ill.	affirmed
Veazie Bank v. Fenno		Chase	none	Nelson	C.C.D. Me.	certification
Willard v. Tayloe		Field	Chase	none	Sup. Ct. D.C.	reversed
Butz v. City of Muscatine		Swayne	none	Miller	C.C.D. Iowa	reversed
United States v. Smith		Grier	none	none	C.C.N.D. Ohio	certification
The Potomac		Davis	none	none	C.C.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Drehman v. Stifle		Swayne	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Hepburn v. Griswold		Chase	none	Miller	Ky.	affirmed
Broderick's Executor v. Magraw		Chase	none	none	Cal.	affirmed
McVeigh v. United States		per curiam	none	none	not indicated	dismissal denied
Chicopee Bank v. 7th National Bank		Nelson	none	none	not indicated	affirmed
Maguire v. Tyler		Clifford	none	none	Mo.	reversed