BARDON v. LAND AND RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANY (1895)

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BARDON v. LAND AND RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANY
Term: 1894
Important Dates
Argued: January 18, 1895
Decided: March 28, 1895
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

BARDON v. LAND AND RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 28, 1895. The case was argued before the court on January 18, 1895.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Wisconsin U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Wisconsin.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 157 U.S. 327
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.

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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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