| Location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Type: | Presidential nomination with Senate confirmation |
| Authority: | Constitution of the United States, Art. III, §1 |
| Terms: | life tenure, subject to impeachment and removal |
| Positions: | 9 (by statute) |
This is a list of cases reported in volume 110 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1884.
See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
See also: List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office.
See also: List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition.
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).[1] 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 110 U.S. were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:
| Portrait | Justice | Office | Home State | Succeeded | Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote) | Tenure on Supreme Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morrison Waite | Chief Justice | Ohio | Salmon P. Chase | (63–0) | – March 23, 1888 (Died) | |
| Samuel Freeman Miller | Associate Justice | Iowa | Peter Vivian Daniel | (Acclamation) | – October 13, 1890 (Died) | |
| Stephen Johnson Field | Associate Justice | California | newly created seat | (Acclamation) | – December 1, 1897 (Retired) | |
| Joseph P. Bradley | Associate Justice | New Jersey | newly created seat | (46–9) | – January 22, 1892 (Died) | |
| John Marshall Harlan | Associate Justice | Kentucky | David Davis | (Acclamation) | – October 14, 1911 (Died) | |
| William Burnham Woods | Associate Justice | Georgia | William Strong | (39–8) | – May 14, 1887 (Died) | |
| Stanley Matthews | Associate Justice | Ohio | Noah Haynes Swayne | (24–23) | – March 22, 1889 (Died) | |
| Horace Gray | Associate Justice | Massachusetts | Nathan Clifford | (51–5) | – September 15, 1902 (Died) | |
| Samuel Blatchford | Associate Justice | New York | Ward Hunt | (Acclamation) | – July 7, 1893 (Died) | |
Kellogg Bridge Company v. Hamilton, 110 U.S. 108 (1884), involved an Implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose lawsuit. The Supreme Court held that under the circumstances of this case (shoddy construction of a bridge), the buyer had the right to rely and necessarily relied on the judgment of the seller and not upon his own. In ordinary circumstances, the buyer has the opportunity to inspect the article sold and the seller is not the maker, so they stand on equal grounds of ignorance. But when the seller is the manufacturer, the fair presumption is that it understands the process of manufacture and knows of any latent defect caused by such process which reasonable diligence might have prevented.
In Hurtado v. California, 110 U.S. 516 (1884), the Supreme Court allowed state governments, as distinguished from the federal government, to avoid using grand juries in criminal prosecutions. The Court ruled that Hurtado, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, was not deprived of due process by lack of a grand jury hearing.
See also: United States district court.
See also: United States circuit court.
See also: United States federal courts. 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.
Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.
See also: Waite Court.
| Case Name | Page & year | Opinion of the Court | Concurring opinion(s) | Dissenting opinion(s) | Lower court | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodwin v. Colorado M.I. Co. | 1 (1884) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.D. Colo. | affirmed |
| Martin v. Webb | 7 (1884) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| Holland v. Challen | 15 (1884) | Field | none | none | reversed | |
| Cedar Rapids et al. R.R. Co. v. Herring | 27 (1884) | Miller | none | none | Iowa | affirmed |
| Taylor v. Bemiss | 42 (1884) | Miller | none | none | reversed | |
| Gilmer v. Higley | 47 (1884) | Miller | none | none | reversed | |
| United States v. Carey | 51 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. La. | affirmed |
| Jenness v. Citizens' Nat'l Bank | 52 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| Hoff v. Jasper Cnty. | 53 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| Susquehanna Boom Co. v. West Branch Boom Co. | 57 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| Holland v. Chambers | 59 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| American Bible Soc'y v. Price | 61 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Frelinghuysen v. Key | 63 (1884) | Waite | none | none | multiple | |
| Schreiber v. Sharpless | 76 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| H.B. Claflin & Co. v. Commonwealth Ins. Co. | 81 (1884) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.D. Minn. | affirmed |
| Hilton v. Merritt | 97 (1884) | Woods | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Kellogg Bridge Co. v. Hamilton | 108 (1884) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| Allen v. Withrow | 119 (1884) | Field | none | none | C.C.D. Iowa | affirmed |
| Bussey v. Excelsior Mfg. Co. | 131 (1884) | Blatchford | none | none | reversed | |
| United States v. Lawton | 146 (1884) | Blatchford | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Hart v. Sansom | 151 (1884) | Gray | none | none | reversed | |
| United States ex rel. Chandler v. Dodge Cnty. | 156 (1884) | Gray | none | none | reversed | |
| Bissell v. Spring Valley Twp. | 162 (1884) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.D. Kan. | affirmed |
| Redfield v. Ystalyfera Iron Co. | 174 (1884) | Matthews | none | none | reversed | |
| Quebec Bank v. Hellman | 178 (1884) | Woods | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| White v. Crow | 183 (1884) | Woods | none | none | C.C.D. Colo. | affirmed |
| City of Jonesboro v. Cairo & S.L.R.R. Co. | 192 (1884) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Zane v. Soffe | 200 (1884) | Bradley | none | none | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Sioux City & P.R.R. Co. v. United States | 205 (1884) | Bradley | none | none | C.C.D. Iowa | affirmed |
| Dimpfell v. Ohio & M. Ry. Co. | 209 (1884) | Field | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| District of Columbia v. Clephane | 212 (1884) | Miller | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Vinal v. West Va. O. & O. Land Co. | 215 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D.W. Va. | affirmed |
| C.J. Hambro & Son v. Casey | 216 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.E.D. La. | affirmed |
| Aurrecoechea v. Bangs | 217 (1884) | Waite | none | none | Cal. | affirmed |
| United States v. Graham | 219 (1884) | Waite | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Jenkins v. Loewenthal | 222 (1884) | Waite | none | none | Ill. | affirmed |
| Dows & Co. v. Johnson | 223 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| First Nat'l Bank v. Redick | 224 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| United States v. Grant & Co. | 225 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| Peugh v. Davis | 227 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissal denied | |
| Lake Shore & M.S. Ry. Co. v. National C.B. Shoe Co. | 229 (1884) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Chouteau v. Barlow | 238 (1884) | Blatchford | none | none | reversed | |
| Freeman v. Dawson | 264 (1884) | Gray | none | none | C.C.W.D. Tenn. | affirmed |
| James v. Hicks | 272 (1884) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.E.D. Va. | affirmed |
| Krippendorf v. Hyde & Bros | 276 (1884) | Matthews | none | none | reversed | |
| American File Co. v. Garrett & Sons | 288 (1884) | Woods | none | none | C.C.D.R.I. | affirmed |
| Whiteside v. Haselton | 296 (1884) | Miller | none | none | reversed | |
| Illinois Cent. R.R. Co. v. Turrill | 301 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Wabash et al. Ry. Co. v. Knox | 304 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| Jeffries v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. | 305 (1884) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.E.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| Vogel v. Gruaz | 311 (1884) | Blatchford | none | none | reversed | |
| Corker v. Jones | 317 (1884) | Matthews | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ga. | affirmed |
| City of E. St. Louis v. United States ex rel. Zebley | 321 (1884) | Matthews | none | none | reversed | |
| United States v. Alexander | 325 (1884) | Woods | none | none | C.C.M.D. Tenn. | affirmed |
| Taylor v. Davis' Adm'x | 330 (1884) | Woods | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| United States v. Behan | 338 (1884) | Bradley | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Spring Valley Water-Works v. Schottler | 347 (1884) | Waite | none | Field | Cal. | affirmed |
| Howard Cnty. v. Paddock | 384 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| Ex parte Cota | 385 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| Webster v. Buffalo Ins. Co. | 386 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| Cable v. Ellis | 389 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ill. | affirmed |
| Tupper v. Wise | 398 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| New Jersey v. Damarest | 400 (1884) | Waite | none | none | case abated | |
| Bean v. Patterson | 401 (1884) | Waite | none | none | appeal docketed | |
| Conro & Carkin v. Crane | 403 (1884) | Blatchford | none | none | reversed | |
| Alexander v. Bryan | 414 (1884) | Blatchford | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ala. | affirmed |
| The Legal-Tender Cases | 421 (1884) | Gray | none | Field | C.C.S.D.N.Y. | affirmed |
| Iowa v. McFarland | 471 (1884) | Gray | none | Miller | dismissed | |
| Pennsylvania R.R. Co. v. Locomotive E.S.T. Co. | 490 (1884) | Gray | none | none | reversed | |
| Irwin & Davis v. Williar | 499 (1884) | Matthews | none | none | reversed | |
| Hurtado v. California | 516 (1884) | Matthews | none | Harlan | Cal. | affirmed |
| Washer v. Bullitt Cnty. | 558 (1884) | Woods | none | none | reversed | |
| German E.C. Church v. Ebbinghaus | 568 (1884) | Woods | none | none | reversed | |
| Hopt v. Utah | 574 (1884) | Harlan | none | none | reversed | |
| Swann v. Wright's Ex'r | 590 (1884) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ala. | affirmed |
| Swann v. Clark | 602 (1884) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.S.D. Ala. | affirmed |
| Northern Bank v. Porter Twp. | 608 (1884) | Harlan | none | none | C.C.N.D. Ohio | affirmed |
| McDonald v. Hovey | 619 (1884) | Bradley | none | none | dismissed | |
| Waples v. United States | 630 (1884) | Field | none | none | Ct. Cl. | affirmed |
| Mitchell v. Clark | 633 (1884) | Miller | none | Field | reversed | |
| Ex parte Yarbrough | 651 (1884) | Miller | none | none | habeas corpus denied | |
| Atchison et al. R.R. Co. v. Denver et al. R.R. Co. | 667 (1884) | Waite | none | none | reversed | |
| Dallas Cnty. v. McKenzie | 686 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.W.D. Mo. | affirmed |
| United States v. Brindle | 688 (1884) | Waite | none | none | reversed | |
| Rice v. Sioux City et al. R.R. Co. | 695 (1884) | Waite | none | none | C.C.D. Minn. | affirmed |
| Cheely v. Clayton | 701 (1884) | Gray | none | none | C.C.D. Colo. | affirmed |
| Freedman's S. & T. Co. v. Earle | 710 (1884) | Matthews | none | none | Sup. Ct. D.C. | affirmed |
| Cutler v. Kouns | 720 (1884) | Woods | none | none | reversed | |
| United States v. Ryder | 729 (1884) | Bradley | none | none | C.C.D.N.J. | affirmed |
| Leggett v. Allen | 741 (1884) | Waite | none | none | dismissed | |
| The Mamie | 742 (1884) | Waite | none | none | stay denied | |