DELAWARE CITY, SALEM AND PHILADELPHIA STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION COMPANY v. REYBOLD (1892)

DELAWARE CITY, SALEM AND PHILADELPHIA STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION COMPANY v. REYBOLD
	Term: 1891
Important Dates
	Argued: January 5, 1892
	Decided: January 18, 1892
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 CITY, SALEM AND PHILADELPHIA STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION COMPANY v. REYBOLD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 18, 1892. The case was argued before the court on January 5, 1892.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Delaware 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: Water transportation, stevedore
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Defendant
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 142 U.S. 636
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: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

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 conservative.