CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY v. WELLS-DICKEY TRUST COMPANY, ADMINISTRATOR (1927)

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY v. WELLS-DICKEY TRUST COMPANY, ADMINISTRATOR
	Term: 1927
Important Dates
	Argued: October 25, 1927
	Decided: November 21, 1927
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY v. WELLS-DICKEY TRUST COMPANY, ADMINISTRATOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 21, 1927. The case was argued before the court on October 25, 1927.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Minnesota State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 275 U.S. 161
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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 conservative.