List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 29

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This is a list of cases reported in volume 29 (4 Pet.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1830.

Nominative reports

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").

Richard Peters, Jr.

Starting with the 26th volume of U.S. Reports, the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States was Richard Peters, Jr. Peters was Reporter of Decisions from 1828 to 1843, covering volumes 26 through 41 of United States Reports which correspond to volumes 1 through 16 of his Peters's Reports. As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, Van Ness v. City of Washington is 29 U.S. (4 Pet.) 232 (1830).

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of 29 U.S. (4 Pet.)

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). 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 29 U.S. (4 Pet.) were decided, the Court comprised these seven justices:

Portrait	Justice	Office	Home State	Succeeded	Date confirmed by the Senate (Vote)	Tenure on Supreme Court
	John Marshall	Chief Justice	Virginia	Oliver Ellsworth	January 27, 1801 (Acclamation)	February 4, 1801 – July 6, 1835 (Died)
	William Johnson	Associate Justice	South Carolina	Alfred Moore	March 24, 1804 (Acclamation)	May 7, 1804 – August 4, 1834 (Died)
	Gabriel Duvall	Associate Justice	Maryland	Samuel Chase	November 18, 1811 (Acclamation)	November 23, 1811 – January 12, 1835 (Resigned)
	Joseph Story	Associate Justice	Massachusetts	William Cushing	November 18, 1811 (Acclamation)	February 3, 1812 – September 10, 1845 (Died)
	Smith Thompson	Associate Justice	New York	Henry Brockholst Livingston	December 9, 1823 (Acclamation)	September 1, 1823 – December 18, 1843 (Died)
	John McLean	Associate Justice	Ohio	Robert Trimble	March 7, 1829 (Acclamation)	January 11, 1830 – April 4, 1861 (Died)
	Henry Baldwin	Associate Justice	Pennsylvania	Bushrod Washington	January 6, 1830 (41–2)	January 18, 1830 – April 21, 1844 (Died)

Citation style

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.

• "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

List of cases in 29 U.S. (4 Pet.)

See also: Marshall Court

Case Name	Page & year	Opinion of the Court	Concurring opinion(s)	Dissenting opinion(s)	Lower Court	Disposition
Carver v. Jackson	1 (1830)	Story	none	none	C.C.S.D.N.Y.	affirmed
Ex parte Bradstreet	102 (1830)	Marshall	none	none	N.D.N.Y.	mandamus denied
Ex parte Tillinghast	108 (1830)	Marshall	none	none	original	admission to bar
Boyce v. Edwards	111 (1830)	Thompson	none	none	C.C.D.S.C.	reversed
United States v. Morrison	124 (1830)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.E.D. Va.	multiple
Columbian Insurance Company v. Ashby	139 (1830)	Thompson	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Harris v. d'Wolf	147 (1830)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D. Mass.	affirmed
Beaty v. Knowler's Lessee	152 (1830)	McLean	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	affirmed
Wilcox v. Plummer's Executors	172 (1830)	Johnson	none	none	C.C.D.N.C.	certification
Bartle v. Nutt	184 (1830)	Baldwin	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Caldwell v. Taggart	190 (1830)	Johnson	none	none	C.C.W.D. Va.	reversed
Lloyd v. Scott	205 (1830)	McLean	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Van Ness v. City of Washington	232 (1830)	Story	none	none	C.C.D.C.	affirmed
Lagrange v. Chouteau	287 (1830)	Marshall	none	none	Mo.	affirmed
Conard v. Nicoll	291 (1830)	Baldwin	none	none	C.C.E.D. Pa.	affirmed
King v. Hamilton	311 (1830)	Thompson	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	multiple
Galt v. Galloway	332 (1830)	McLean	none	none	C.C.D. Ohio	multiple
Ronkendorff v. Taylor's Lessee	349 (1830)	McLean	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Bank of the United States v. Tyler	366 (1830)	Baldwin	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
Saunders v. Gould	392 (1830)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.R.I.	certification
Spratt v. Spratt	393 (1830)	Marshall	none	none	C.C.D.C.	reversed
Craig v. Missouri	410 (1830)	Marshall	none	Johnson; Thompson; McLean	Mo.	reversed
Hollingsworth v. Barbour	466 (1830)	Baldwin	none	none	C.C.D. Ky.	affirmed
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. Town of Pawlet	480 (1830)	Story	none	Baldwin	C.C.D. Vt.	certification
Soulard v. United States	511 (1830)	Marshall	none	none	D. Mo.	continued
Providence Bank v. Billings	514 (1830)	Marshall	none	none	R.I.	affirmed

See also

• Certificate of division

External links

• [1] Case reports in volume 29 (4 Pet.) from Court Listener
• [2] Case reports in volume 29 (4 Pet.) from the Caselaw Access Project of Harvard Law School
• [3] Case reports in volume 29 (4 Pet.) from Google Scholar
• [4] Case reports in volume 29 (4 Pet.) from Justia
• [5] Case reports in volume 29 (4 Pet.) from Open Jurist
• Website of the United States Supreme Court
• United States Courts website about the Supreme Court
• National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States
• American Bar Association, How Does the Supreme Court Work?
• The Supreme Court Historical Society