DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. CONVERSE (1891)

DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. CONVERSE
	Term: 1890
Important Dates
	Argued: March 18, 1891
	Decided: March 30, 1891
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. CONVERSE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 30, 1891. The case was argued before the court on March 18, 1891.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Jersey U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New Jersey.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 139 U.S. 469
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: John Marshall Harlan

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.