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CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY v. HOYT (1893)

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CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY v. HOYT
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: March 30, 1893
Decided: April 17, 1893
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY v. HOYT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 17, 1893. The case was argued before the court on March 30, 1893.

In a 6-0 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.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Tenant or lessee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 149 U.S. 1
  • 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: Howell Edmunds Jackson

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 unspecifiable.

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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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