List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 240
# List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 240

This is a list of cases reported in volume 240 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 240 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 (one chief justice and five associate justices). 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 240 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

| Justice | Office | Home State | Succeeded | Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote) | Tenure on Supreme Court |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Edward Douglass White | Chief Justice | Louisiana | Melville Fuller | December 12, 1910 (Acclamation) | December 19, 1910 – May 19, 1921 (Died) |
| 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) |
| William R. Day | Associate Justice | Ohio | George Shiras Jr. | February 23, 1903 (Acclamation) | March 2, 1903 – November 13, 1922 (Retired) |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Associate Justice | New York | David Josiah Brewer | May 2, 1910 (Acclamation) | October 10, 1910 – June 10, 1916 (Resigned) |
| Willis Van Devanter | Associate Justice | Wyoming | Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) | December 15, 1910 (Acclamation) | January 3, 1911 – June 2, 1937 (Retired) |
| Joseph Rucker Lamar | Associate Justice | Georgia | William Henry Moody | December 15, 1910 (Acclamation) | January 3, 1911 – January 2, 1916 (Died) |
| Mahlon Pitney | Associate Justice | New Jersey | John Marshall Harlan | March 13, 1912 (50–26) | March 18, 1912 – December 31, 1922 (Resigned) |
| James Clark McReynolds | Associate Justice | Tennessee | Horace Harmon Lurton | August 29, 1914 (44–6) | October 12, 1914 – January 31, 1941 (Retired) |

## Notable Case in 240 U.S.

### Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company

In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 240 U.S. 1 (1916), the Supreme Court upheld the validity of a tax statute called the Revenue Act of 1913, enacted pursuant to Article I, section 8, clause 1 of, and the Sixteenth Amendment to, the United States Constitution, allowing a federal income tax. The Sixteenth Amendment had been ratified earlier in 1913. The Revenue Act of 1913 imposed income taxes that were not apportioned among the states according to each state's population.

## 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 (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 240 U.S.

| Case Name | Page & year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower Court | Disposition |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company | 1 (1916) | White | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Fleitmann v. Welsbach Street Lighting Company | 27 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | 2d Cir. | affirmed |
| Mt. Vernon-Woodberry Cotton Duck Company v. Alabama Interstate Power Company | 30 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | Ala. | affirmed |
| New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company v. Peninsula Produce Exchange of Maryland | 34 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | Md. | affirmed |
| Loomis v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company | 43 (1916) | McReynolds | none | none | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | affirmed |
| Kansas City Western Railroad Company v. McAdow | 51 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | Mo. Ct. App. | affirmed |
| Gast Realty and Investment Company v. Schneider Granite Company | 55 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | Mo. | reversed |
| Lámar v. United States | 60 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | dismissed |
| Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Skaggs | 66 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Crocker v. United States | 74 (1916) | VanDevanter | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Cardona v. Quiñones | 83 (1916) | White | none | none | P.R. | affirmed |
| United States v. Andrews | 90 (1916) | White | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Male v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company | 97 (1916) | White | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Stanton v. Baltic Mining Company | 103 (1916) | White | none | none | D. Mass. | affirmed |
| Tyee Realty Company v. Anderson | 115 (1916) | White | none | none | S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Dodge v. Osborn | 118 (1916) | White | none | none | D.C. Cir. | affirmed |
| Dodge v. Brady | 122 (1916) | White | none | none | E.D. Mich. | affirmed |
| Innes v. Tobin | 127 (1916) | White | none | none | Tex. Crim. App. | affirmed |
| Title Guaranty and Surety Company v. Idaho ex rel. Allen | 136 (1916) | White | none | none | Idaho | dismissed |
| Banning Company v. California ex rel. Webb | 142 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | Cal. | affirmed |
| Carnegie Steel Company v. United States | 156 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Kansas City Southern Railroad Company v. Guardian Trust Company | 166 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Straus v. Notaseme Hosiery Company | 179 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | 2d Cir. | reversed |
| Rogers v. Hennepin County | 184 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| United States v. Morrison | 192 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | 9th Cir. | reversed |
| Illinois Surety Company v. United States ex rel. Peeler | 214 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | 4th Cir. | affirmed |
| Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis Railroad Company v. Botkin, Secretary of State of Kansas | 227 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | Kan. | affirmed |
| Lusk v. Botkin, Secretary of State of Kansas | 236 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | Kan. | affirmed |
| St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company v. Shepherd | 240 (1916) | VanDevanter | none | none | Okla. | dismissed |
| Embree v. Kansas City and Liberty Boulevard Road District | 242 (1916) | VanDevanter | none | none | Mo. | affirmed |
| Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company v. Wolf Brothers and Company | 251 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Guerini Stone Company v. P.J. Carlin Construction Company | 264 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | D.P.R. | reversed |
| Union Naval Stores Company v. United States | 284 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| O'Keefe v. United States | 294 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | E.D. La. | affirmed |
| Carolina Glass Company v. South Carolina | 305 (1916) | McReynolds | none | none | multiple | multiple |
| Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland v. Pennsylvania | 319 (1916) | McReynolds | none | none | Pa. | affirmed |
| Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company v. Railroad Commission of Georgia | 324 (1916) | McReynolds | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Butler v. Perry | 328 (1916) | McReynolds | none | none | Fla. | affirmed |
| Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company v. United States | 334 (1916) | McReynolds | none | none | E.D. Pa. | reversed |
| Rast v. Van Deman and Lewis Company | 342 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | S.D. Fla. | reversed |
| Tanner v. Little | 369 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | E.D. Wash. | reversed |
| Pitney v. Washington | 387 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | Wash. | affirmed |
| Badders v. United States | 391 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | D. Kan. | affirmed |
| Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Messina | 395 (1916) | Holmes | none | Hughes | Miss. | reversed |
| Causey v. United States | 399 (1916) | VanDevanter | none | none | 5th Cir. | affirmed |
| Hanover Star Milling Company v. Metcalf | 403 (1916) | Pitney | Holmes | none | multiple | multiple |
| Eaton v. Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company | 427 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | Mass. | affirmed |
| Carey v. Donohue | 430 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | 6th Cir. | reversed |
| Pecos and Northern Texas Railroad Company v. Rosenbloom | 439 (1916) | McReynolds | none | none | Tex. | reversed |
| United States v. U.S. Steel Corporation | 442 (1916) | White | none | none | D.N.J. | filing time extended |
| Great Northern Railroad Company v. Wiles | 444 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | Minn. | reversed |
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Bond | 449 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | Okla. | reversed |
| Southern Wisconsin Railroad Company v. Madison | 457 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | Wis. | affirmed |
| Cuyahoga River P. Company v. City of Akron | 462 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | N.D. Ohio | reversed |
| Great Northern Railroad Company v. Knapp | 464 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | Minn. | affirmed |
| Johnson v. Riddle | 467 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | Okla. | affirmed |
| Barlow v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company | 484 (1916) | White | none | none | N.D. | affirmed |
| Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company v. Kenney | 489 (1916) | White | none | none | N.C. | affirmed |
| Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank of Philadelphia v. Ridge Avenue Bank | 498 (1916) | White | none | none | 3d Cir. | certification |
| Armour and Company v. North Dakota | 510 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | N.D. | affirmed |
| St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company v. Arkansas | 518 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | Ark. | affirmed |
| Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company v. Oklahoma | 522 (1916) | McKenna | none | none | Okla. | reversed |
| Ackerlind v. United States | 531 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
| Farnham v. United States | 537 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Jones National Bank v. Yates | 541 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | Neb. | reversed |
| Detroit and Mackinac Railway Company v. Michigan Railroad Commission | 564 (1916) | VanDevanter | none | none | Mich. | affirmed |
| Willink v. United States | 572 (1916) | VanDevanter | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Central Trust Company v. Chicago Auditorium Association | 581 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | 7th Cir. | multiple |
| Pinel v. Pinel | 594 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | E.D. Mich. | affirmed |
| Uterhart v. United States | 598 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | Ct. Cl. | reversed |
| United States v. Union Manufacturing Company | 605 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | S.D. Fla. | reversed |
| Southern Express Company v. Byers | 612 (1916) | McReynolds | none | none | N.C. | reversed |
| Varner v. New Hampshire Savings Bank | 617 (1916) | McReynolds | none | none | 8th Cir. | affirmed |
| Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company v. Hostetter | 620 (1916) | White | none | none | W. Va. Cir. Ct. | reversed |
| Bullen v. Wisconsin | 625 (1916) | Holmes | none | none | Waukesha Cnty. Ct. | affirmed |
| Southern Railroad Company v. Prescott | 632 (1916) | Hughes | none | none | S.C. | reversed |
| Fairbanks Steamship Company v. Wills | 642 (1916) | Pitney | none | none | 7th Cir. | affirmed |
| Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Company | 650 (1916) | per curiam | none | none | original | order entered |
| North Carolina v. Tennessee | 652 (1916) | per curiam | none | none | original | boundary set |
