AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS COMPANY v. ROYSTER GUANO COMPANY (1927) - Ballotpedia

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AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS COMPANY v. ROYSTER GUANO COMPANY

Term: 1926
Important Dates
Argued: November 17, 1925
Decided: February 21, 1927
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Pierce Butler • George Sutherland

AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS COMPANY v. ROYSTER GUANO COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 21, 1927. The case was argued before the court on November 17, 1925.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 273 U.S. 274
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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 unspecifiable.

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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