ARTHUR v. TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY (1907)

ARTHUR v. TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: January 24, 1907
	Decided: February 25, 1907
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
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

ARTHUR v. TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1907. The case was argued before the court on January 24, 1907.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Arkansas U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Arkansas.

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.

^[1]

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 204 U.S. 505
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.