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BLOSSOM v. THE MILWAUKEE, &C., RAILROAD COMPANY (1864)

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BLOSSOM v. THE MILWAUKEE, &C., RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1863
Important Dates
Argued: March 4, 1864
Decided: April 11, 1864
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
10-0
Majority
John Catron • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

BLOSSOM v. THE MILWAUKEE, &C., RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 11, 1864. The case was argued before the court on March 4, 1864.

In a 10-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Wisconsin U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Civil procedure
  • Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 68 U.S. 655
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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