ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY v. ERIE AND WESTERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY (1907)

ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY v. ERIE AND WESTERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: December 14, 1906
	Decided: January 14, 1907
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY v. ERIE AND WESTERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 14, 1907. The case was argued before the court on December 14, 1906.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Business, corporation
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: 204 U.S. 220
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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