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FREELAND v. WILLIAMS (1889)

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FREELAND v. WILLIAMS
Term: 1888
Important Dates
Argued: April 17, 1889
Decided: May 13, 1889
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

FREELAND v. WILLIAMS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 13, 1889. The case was argued before the court on April 17, 1889.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the West Virginia State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, 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 - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Farmer, farm worker, or farm organization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Military personnel, or dependent of, including reservist
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 131 U.S. 405
  • 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: 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 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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