List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 86

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This is a list of cases reported in volume 86 (19 Wall.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1873 and 1874.

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 (these are called "nominative reports").

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, Coit v. Robinson is 86 U. S. (19 Wall.) 274 (1874). Wallace's Reports were the final nominative reports for the US Supreme Court; starting with volume 91, cases were identified simply as "(volume #) U. S. (page #) (year)".

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 86 U. S. (19 Wall.) 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 January 21, 1874(63–0) March 4, 1874–March 23, 1888(Died) Nathan Clifford Associate Justice Maine Benjamin Robbins Curtis January 12, 1858(26–23) January 21, 1858–July 25, 1881(Died) Noah Haynes Swayne Associate Justice Ohio John McLean January 24, 1862(38–1) January 27, 1862–January 24, 1881(Retired) Samuel Freeman Miller Associate Justice Iowa Peter Vivian Daniel July 16, 1862(Acclamation) July 21, 1862–October 13, 1890(Died) David Davis Associate Justice Illinois John Archibald Campbell December 8, 1862(Acclamation) December 10, 1862–March 4, 1877(Resigned) Stephen Johnson Field Associate Justice California newly created seat March 10, 1863(Acclamation)May 10, 1863–December 1, 1897(Retired) William Strong Associate Justice Pennsylvania Robert Cooper Grier February 18, 1870(No vote recorded) March 14, 1870–December 14, 1880(Retired) Joseph P. Bradley Associate Justice New Jersey newly created seat March 21, 1870(46–9) March 23, 1870–January 22, 1892(Died) Ward Hunt Associate Justice New York Samuel Nelson December 11, 1872(Acclamation) January 9, 1873–January 27, 1882(Retired)

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. "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

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition Barings v. Dabney 1 (1874) Bradley Strong none S. C. affirmed Hodges v. Vaughan 12 (1873) Clifford none none original certiorari denied Stowe v. United States 13 (1874) Davis none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Salomon v. United States 17 (1873) Miller none none Ct. Cl. reversed McCarthy v. Mann 20 (1874) Swayne none none C. C. D. Minn. affirmed Zantzingers v. Gunton 32 (1874) Miller none none Sup. Ct. D. C. affirmed Bulkley v. United States 37 (1874) Swayne none none Ct. Cl. reversed The Wenona 41 (1874) Clifford none none C. C. N. D. N. Y. reversed Knowles v. Gaslight and Coke Company 58 (1874) Bradley none none C. C. D. Minn. reversed Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company v. Sixth Presbyterian Church 62 (1874) Miller none none Sup. Ct. D. C. dismissal denied Cooper's Executor v. Omohundro 65 (1874) Clifford none none C. C. E. D. Va. affirmed Crews v. Brewer 70 (1874) per curiam none none C. C. N. D. Ill. affirmed The Lucille 73 (1874) Miller none none C. C. D. Md. dismissed The Falcon 75 (1874) Swayne none none C. C. D. Md. reversed Morgan's Executor v. Gay 81 (1874) Strong none none C. C. D. La. reversed Town of Queensbury v. Culver 83 (1874) Strong none none C. C. N. D. N. Y. affirmed Robertson v. Carson 94 (1874) Swayne none none C. C. D. S. C. reversed Rees v. City of Watertown 107 (1874) Hunt none Clifford C. C. W. D. Wis. affirmed The Pennsylvania 125 (1874) Strong none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. reversed Carpenter v. Rannels 138 (1874) Swayne none none Mo. affirmed Sawyer v. Prickett 146 (1874) Hunt none none C. C. N. D. Ill. reversed Cropley v. Cooper 167 (1874) Swayne none none Sup. Ct. D. C. reversed The Rio Grande 178 (1874) Clifford none none C. C. D. La. dismissal denied Eldred v. Sexton 189 (1874) Davis none none Wis. affirmed United States v. Gaussen 198 (1873) Hunt none none C. C. D. La. reversed Home Life Insurance Company v. Dunn 214 (1874) Swayne none none Ohio Dist. Ct. App. reversed Dollar Savings Bank v. United States 227 (1874) Strong none Bradley C. C. W. D. Pa. affirmed Nugent v. Putnam County 241 (1874) Strong none none C. C. N. D. Ill. reversed Kitchen v. Rayburn 254 (1874) Strong none none C. C. D. Mo. affirmed Caldwell's Case 264 (1874) Hunt none none Ct. Cl. reversed Hall v. Jordan 271 (1873) Clifford none none Tenn. affirmed Coit v. Robinson 274 (1874) Clifford none Bradley C. C. S. D. N. Y. dismissed Mitchell v. Tilghman 287 (1874) Clifford none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. reversed Union Telegraph Company v. Eyser 419 (1873) Swayne none Clifford Sup. Ct. Terr. Colo. supersedeas granted Klein v. Russell 433 (1874) Swayne none none C. C. N. D. N. Y. affirmed City of Nashville v. Ray 468 (1874) Bradley Hunt Clifford C. C. M. D. Tenn. reversed City of Nashville v. Lindsey 485 (1874) Bradley none none C. C. M. D. Tenn. reversed United States v. Arwo 486 (1874) Clifford none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. certification Tappan v. Merchants' National Bank 490 (1874) Waite none none C. C. N. D. Ill. reversed Ex parte Robinson I 505 (1874) Field none none W. D. Ark. mandamus granted Ex parte Robinson II 513 (1873) Clifford none none W. D. Ark. advancement denied Ryan v. United States 514 (1874) Miller none none C. C. D. Ind. affirmed Burke v. Miltenberger 519 (1874) Davis none none La. affirmed Head v. University of Missouri 526 (1874) Hunt none none Mo. affirmed Travellers' Insurance Company v. Seaver 531 (1874) Miller none none C. C. D. Vt. reversed Butt v. Ellett 544 (1874) Swayne none none C. C. D. La. affirmed Confederate Note Case 548 (1874) Field none none C. C. D. N. C. affirmed Nunez v. Dautel 560 (1874) Swayne none none C. C. S. D. Ga. affirmed Williams v. Bankhead 563 (1874) Bradley none none C. C. E. D. Ark. reversed Stevenson v. Williams 572 (1874) Field none none La. affirmed Osborne v. United States 577 (1874) Waite none none C. C. E. D. Pa. affirmed Peete v. Morgan 581 (1874) Davis none none C. C. E. D. Tex. affirmed Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Company v. Richmond 584 (1874) Field none none Iowa affirmed United States v. Cook 591 (1874) Waite none none C. C. E. D. Wis. certification United States v. Innerarity 595 (1874) Hunt none none D. La. reversed United States v. Jonas 598 (1874) Davis none none C. C. D. La. affirmed Holladay v. Daily 606 (1874) Field none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Colo. affirmed Packet Company v. Sickles 611 (1874) Miller none none Sup. Ct. D. C. reversed Mackay v. Easton 619 (1874) Field none none C. C. E. D. Mo. affirmed Aicardi v. Alabama 635 (1874) Swayne none none Ala. affirmed Great Western Insurance Company v. Fogarty 640 (1874) Miller none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. affirmed Warren v. Van Brunt 646 (1874) Waite none none Minn. affirmed Heine v. Levee Commissioners 655 (1874) Miller none none C. C. D. La. affirmed Boise County v. Gorman 661 (1874) Waite none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Idaho dismissed Pine Grove Township v. Talcott 666 (1874) Swayne none none C. C. W. D. Mich. affirmed