| Litigants: | Inter-Island Stream Nav. Co. v. Ward |
| Arguedate: | October 9 |
| Argueyear: | 1916 |
| Decidedate: | October 30 |
| Decideyear: | 1916 |
| Fullname: | Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. v. Ward |
| Usvol: | 242 |
| Uspage: | 1 |
| Parallelcitations: | 37 S. Ct. 1; 61 L. Ed. 113 |
| Prior: | On error from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. |
| Subsequent: | None |
| Holding: | A writ of error will not lie from the United States Supreme Court to review a judgment of the circuit court of appeals in a case presenting neither diversity of citizenship nor federal question, which was taken to that court from the Supreme Court of Hawaii, pursuant to Judicial Code, § 246, as amended by the Act of January 28, 1915, 38 Stat. 803, c. 22, upon the basis of pecuniary amount alone. |
| Majority: | Chief Justice White |
| Joinmajority: | all |
| Lawsapplied: | Judicial Code, § 246 |
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. v. Ward, 242 U.S. 1 (1916), was a civil lawsuit that came before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1916. It involved the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company, a shipping company operating in the Hawaiian Islands. The Supreme Court declined to review a judgment of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.