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CHICAGO AND ALTON RAILROAD v. WIGGINS FERRY COMPANY

Term: 1876
Important Dates
Argued: October 22, 1886
Decided: January 10, 1887
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

CHICAGO AND ALTON RAILROAD v. WIGGINS FERRY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 10, 1887. The case was argued before the court on October 22, 1886.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Missouri State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 119 U.S. 615
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: Morrison Waite

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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