FRANKLIN TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. HARRISON (1892)

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FRANKLIN TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. HARRISON
Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: April 19, 1892
Decided: May 16, 1892
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller

FRANKLIN TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. HARRISON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 16, 1892. The case was argued before the court on April 19, 1892.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 145 U.S. 459
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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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