BACKUS v. FORT STREET UNION DEPOT COMPANY (1898) - Ballotpedia

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BACKUS v. FORT STREET UNION DEPOT COMPANY

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: January 17, 1898
Decided: March 7, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

BACKUS v. FORT STREET UNION DEPOT COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 7, 1898. The case was argued before the court on January 17, 1898.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 169 U.S. 557
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: David Josiah Brewer

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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