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ABERDEEN BANK v. CHEHALIS COUNTY

Term: 1896
Important Dates
Argued: April 30, 1896
Decided: April 12, 1897
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

ABERDEEN BANK v. CHEHALIS COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 12, 1897. The case was argued before the court on April 30, 1896.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Washington
Citation: 166 U.S. 440
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: George Shiras

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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