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DIBBLE v. BELLINGHAM BAY LAND COMPANY (1896)

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DIBBLE v. BELLINGHAM BAY LAND COMPANY
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: April 17, 1896
Decided: May 4, 1896
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

DIBBLE v. BELLINGHAM BAY LAND COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 4, 1896. The case was argued before the court on April 17, 1896.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Washington State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • 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: 163 U.S. 63
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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 unspecifiable.

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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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