COWLEY v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (1895)

COWLEY v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
	Term: 1895
Important Dates
	Argued: October 22, 1895
	Decided: November 18, 1895
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

COWLEY v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 18, 1895. The case was argued before the court on October 22, 1895.

In an 8-0 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 Washington U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Washington.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
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: 159 U.S. 569
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 liberal.