CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILWAY COMPANY v. MCGUIRE (1905)

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILWAY COMPANY v. MCGUIRE
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Argued: December 2, 1904
	Decided: January 3, 1905
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILWAY COMPANY v. MCGUIRE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1905. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1904.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Indiana State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
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: 196 U.S. 128
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: Henry Billings Brown

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.