CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY v. BOSWORTH, RECEIVER (1900)

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY v. BOSWORTH, RECEIVER
	Term: 1900
Important Dates
	Argued: October 24, 1899
	Decided: December 17, 1900
Outcome
	Reversed
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

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY v. BOSWORTH, RECEIVER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 17, 1900. The case was argued before the court on October 24, 1899.

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

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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: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 179 U.S. 442
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Edward Douglass White

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.