CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. CHICAGO (1896)

CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. CHICAGO
	Term: 1896
Important Dates
	Argued: November 6, 1896
	Decided: November 30, 1896
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. CHICAGO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 30, 1896. The case was argued before the court on November 6, 1896.

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

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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: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Illinois
Citation: 164 U.S. 454
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: John Marshall Harlan

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.