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CALHOUN GOLD MINING COMPANY v. AJAX GOLD MINING COMPANY (1901)

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CALHOUN GOLD MINING COMPANY v. AJAX GOLD MINING COMPANY
Term: 1900
Important Dates
Argued: March 13, 1901
Decided: May 27, 1901
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

CALHOUN GOLD MINING COMPANY v. AJAX GOLD MINING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1901. The case was argued before the court on March 13, 1901.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Colorado 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: Economic Activity - state and territorial land claims
  • Petitioner: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 182 U.S. 499
  • 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: Joseph McKenna

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.

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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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