DE LAMAR'S NEVADA GOLD MINING COMPANY v. NESBITT (1900)

DE LAMAR'S NEVADA GOLD MINING COMPANY v. NESBITT
	Term: 1899
Important Dates
	Argued: March 1, 1900
	Decided: April 30, 1900
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Joseph McKenna

DE LAMAR'S NEVADA GOLD MINING COMPANY v. NESBITT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 30, 1900. The case was argued before the court on March 1, 1900.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Nevada 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: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 177 U.S. 523
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: 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 conservative.