UNITED STATES REPORT VOLUME 218 CASES ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT AT OCTOBER TERM, 1909 AND OCTOBER TERM, 1910 CHARLES HENRY BUTLER REPORTER THE BANKS LAW PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK 1911 JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.1 3 2 MELVILLE WESTON FULLER, CHIEF JUSTICE. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. WILLIAM HENRY MOODY, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. GEORGE WOODWARD WICKERSHAM, ATTORNEY GENERAL. JAMES HALL MCKENNEY, CLERK. JOHN MONTGOMERY WRIGHT, MARSHAL. 1 For allotment of THE CHIEF JUSTICE and Associate Justices among the several circuits see page v, post. 2 THE CHIEF JUSTICE died July 4, 1910, at his home in Sorrento, Maine, during vacation. He was buried in Chicago, Illinois. The proceedings on his death will appear in Vol. 219, United States Reports. On December 12, 1910, President Taft appointed Edward Douglass White, Associate Justice of this court, Chief Justice of the United States, to succeed MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER. He was confirmed by the Senate on the same day and on December 19 took the oath as Chief Justice. MR. ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HARLAN presided from the opening of October Term, 1910, until December 19, 1910. 4 Appointed and confirmed Chief Justice of the United States December 12, 1910, and took the oath as such December 19, 1910. On December 12, 1910, President Taft appointed Mr. Joseph Rucker Lamar, of Georgia, Associate Justice to succeed MR. JUSTICE WHITE as such. He (NOTES CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE.) |