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ARKANSAS SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. GERMAN NATIONAL BANK (1907)

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ARKANSAS SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. GERMAN NATIONAL BANK
Term: 1907
Important Dates
Argued: November 14, 1907
Decided: December 2, 1907
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

ARKANSAS SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. GERMAN NATIONAL BANK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 2, 1907. The case was argued before the court on November 14, 1907.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Arkansas State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 207 U.S. 270
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 conservative.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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