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EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY (1888)

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EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Term: 1887
Important Dates
Argued: December 13, 1887
Decided: April 9, 1888
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller

EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 9, 1888. The case was argued before the court on December 13, 1887.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Alabama U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Alabama.

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 - Standing to sue: adversary parties
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 125 U.S. 695
  • 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: Samuel Freeman Miller

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.

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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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