CONVERS v. ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY (1892)

CONVERS v. ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY
	Term: 1891
Important Dates
	Argued: January 11, 1892
	Decided: January 26, 1892
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-0
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

CONVERS v. ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 26, 1892. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1892.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 142 U.S. 671
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: David Josiah Brewer

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.