COLUMBIA WATER POWER COMPANY v. COLUMBIA ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1899)

COLUMBIA WATER POWER COMPANY v. COLUMBIA ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: December 6, 1898
	Decided: January 9, 1899
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

COLUMBIA WATER POWER COMPANY v. COLUMBIA ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 9, 1899. The case was argued before the court on December 6, 1898.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
Petitioner: Electric or hydroelectric power utility, power cooperative, or gas and electric company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Electric or hydroelectric power utility, power cooperative, or gas and electric company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 172 U.S. 475
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: 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 liberal.