List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 89

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This is a list of cases reported in volume 89 (22 Wall.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1874 and 1875.

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, Gavinzel v. Crump is 89 U. S. (22 Wall.) 308 (1875). 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 89 U. S. (22 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 of case Gill v. Wells 1 (1874) Clifford none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. reversed Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Newton 32 (1875) Field none none C. C. E. D. Mo. reversed Cary v. Savings Union 38 (1875) Waite none none C. C. D. Cal. affirmed House v. Mullen 42 (1875) Miller none none M. D. Ala. reversed Jeffries v. Economical Life Insurance Company 47 (1875) Hunt none none C. C. E. D. Mo. affirmed Scott v. Kelly 57 (1875) Waite none none N. Y. Sup. Ct. dismissed Putnam v. Day 60 (1875) Bradley none none C. C. D. Ind. reversed Ritchie v. Franklin County 67 (1875) Davis none none C. C. E. D. Mo. affirmed Maxwell v. Stewart 77 (1875) Waite none none N. M. affirmed Haycraft v. United States 81 (1875) Waite none none Ct. Cl. affirmed United States v. Home Insurance Company 99 (1875) Strong none none Ct. Cl. affirmed Maryland v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 105 (1874) Strong none none Md. affirmed Pleasants v. Fant 116 (1875) Miller none none C. C. D. Md. affirmed Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad Company v. Pratt 123 (1875) Hunt none none C. C. D. Mass. affirmed St. John v. Erie Railroad Company 136 (1875) Swayne none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. affirmed Sloan v. Lewis 150 (1875) Waite none none N. C. affirmed In re Chiles 157 (1875) Miller none none original contempt citation Burnhisel v. Firman 170 (1875) Swayne none none Sup. Ct Terr. Utah reversed Elgee Cotton Cases 180 (1875) Strong none none Ct. Cl. reversed Fretz v. Stover 198 (1875) Davis none none E. D. Va. reversed Sweeney v. Lomme 208 (1874) Miller none none Sup. Ct. Terr. Mont. affirmed Bailey v. Magwire 215 (1875) Davis none none C. C. E. D. Mo. reversed French v. Hay I 231 (1875) Strong none none Sup. Ct. D. C. affirmed French v. Hay II 238 (1875) Swayne none none C. C. E. D. Va. affirmed French v. Hay III 250 (1875) Swayne none none C. C. E. D. Va. affirmed Connoyer v. Schaeffer 254 (1875) Davis none none Mo. affirmed Hampton v. Rouse 263 (1875) Clifford none none C. C. S. D. Miss. reversed Mechanics' and Traders' Bank v. Union Bank 276 (1875) Strong none Field La. affirmed Gavinzel v. Crump 308 (1875) Davis none none C. C. E. D. Va. reversed Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company v. Ramsey 322 (1875) Waite none none C. C. N. D. Ill. affirmed Stephen v. Beall 329 (1875) Hunt none none Sup. Ct. D. C. reversed New Jersey Railroad Company v. Pollard 341 (1875) Waite none none C. C. D. N. J. affirmed Woodson v. Murdock 351 (1874) Strong none Miller C. C. W. D. Mo. affirmed Morgan v. Campbell 381 (1875) Davis none none C. C. N. D. Ill. affirmed Amsinck v. Bean 395 (1875) Clifford none none C. C. S. D. N. Y. reversed United States v. Farragut 406 (1875) Miller none none Sup. Ct. D. C. reversed Fox v. Seal 424 (1875) Strong none none C. C. W. D. Pa. reversed Union Pacific Railroad Company v. McShane 444 (1875) Miller none none C. C. D. Neb. affirmed Hunnewell v. Cass County 464 (1875) Miller none none C. C. D. Neb. affirmed Taylor v. Thomas 479 (1875) Clifford none none Miss. affirmed United States v. Saunders 492 (1875) Bradley none none Ct. Cl. reversed Piatt's Administrator v. United States 496 (1875) Clifford none Bradley Ct. Cl. reversed Robinson v. Elliott 513 (1875) Davis none none C. C. D. Ind. affirmed Tucker v. Ferguson 527 (1875) Swayne none none C. C. W. D. Mich. affirmed Ross v. Jones 576 (1875) Clifford none none C. C. E. D. Ark. affirmed Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company v. Androscoggin Mills 594 (1874) Hunt none none C. C. D. Ind. reversed Bailey v. New York Central Railroad Company 604 (1875) Clifford none none C. C. N. D. N. Y. reversed United States v. O'Grady 641 (1875) Clifford none none Ct. Cl. affirmed