CANAL AND CLAIBORNE STREETS RAILROAD COMPANY, GARNISHEE, v. HART (1885)

CANAL AND CLAIBORNE STREETS RAILROAD COMPANY, GARNISHEE, v. HART
	Term: 1884
Important Dates
	Argued: April 24, 1885
	Decided: May 4, 1885
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

CANAL AND CLAIBORNE STREETS RAILROAD COMPANY, GARNISHEE, v. HART is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 4, 1885. The case was argued before the court on April 24, 1885.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
Petitioner: Debtor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 114 U.S. 654
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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Blatchford

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.