UNITED STATES REPORTS VOLUME 204 CASES ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT AT OCTOBER TERM, 1906 CHARLES HENRY BUTLER REPORTER THE BANKS LAW PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK 1907 JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT1 DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS. MELVILLE WESTON FULLER, CHIEF JUSTICE. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. WILLIAM HENRY MOODY, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. 2 CHARLES J. BONAPARTE, 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 next page. 2 Appointed December 17, 1906; took no part in any of the decisions reported in this volume argued or submitted prior to that date, or in any decisions in suits in which he had appeared for the United States as Attorney General. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. ALLOTMENT OF JUSTICES, DECEMBER 24, 1906.1 ORDER: There having been an Associate Justice of this court appointed since the commencement of this term, it is ordered that the following allotment be made of the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of this court among the circuits, agreeably to the act of Congress in such case made and provided, and that such allotment be entered of record, viz: For the First Circuit, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice. For the Second Circuit, Rufus W. Peckham, Associate Justice. For the Third Circuit, William H. Moody, Associate Justice. For the Fourth Circuit, Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice. For the Fifth Circuit, Edward D. White, Associate Justice. For the Sixth Circuit, John M. Harlan, Associate Justice. For the Seventh Circuit, William R. Day, Associate Justice. For the Eighth Circuit, David J. Brewer, Associate Justice. For the Ninth Circuit, Joseph McKenna, Associate Justice. 1 For the last preceding allotment see 202 U. S. vii. TABLE OF CONTENTS. American Railroad Company of Porto Rico v. Castro American Smelting and Refining Company v. Colorado ex rel. Lindsley Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, Min- nesota and Dakota Cattle Company v. Automatic Scale Company, Computing Scale Company of Babcock, Treasurer of Adams County, Nebraska, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company v. 193 609. 585 |