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DES MOINES NAVIGATION AND RAILROAD COMPANY v. IOWA HOMESTEAD COMPANY (1887)

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DES MOINES NAVIGATION AND RAILROAD COMPANY v. IOWA HOMESTEAD COMPANY
Term: 1887
Important Dates
Argued: November 1, 1887
Decided: December 5, 1887
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

DES MOINES NAVIGATION AND RAILROAD COMPANY v. IOWA HOMESTEAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 5, 1887. The case was argued before the court on November 1, 1887.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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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: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Farmer, farm worker, or farm organization
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 123 U.S. 552
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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