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CITY OF SAN JUAN v. ST. JOHN'S GAS COMPANY, LIMITED

Term: 1904
Important Dates
Argued: November 3, 1904
Decided: December 12, 1904
Outcome
Reversed
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

CITY OF SAN JUAN v. ST. JOHN'S GAS COMPANY, LIMITED is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 12, 1904. The case was argued before the court on November 3, 1904.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Puerto Rico U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Puerto Rico
Respondent type: Electric or hydroelectric power utility, power cooperative, or gas and electric company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 195 U.S. 510
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: 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 unspecifiable.

See also

External links

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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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