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CITY RAILWAY COMPANY v. CITIZENS' STREET RAILROAD COMPANY

Term: 1896
Important Dates
Argued: March 16, 1897
Decided: April 19, 1897
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Concurring
Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

CITY RAILWAY COMPANY v. CITIZENS' STREET RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 19, 1897. The case was argued before the court on March 16, 1897.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Indiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Indiana.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Indiana
Respondent type: Government contractor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 166 U.S. 557
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Henry Billings Brown

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

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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