GALVESTON, HARRISBURG AND SAN ANTONIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. TEXAS (1898)

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GALVESTON, HARRISBURG AND SAN ANTONIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. TEXAS
Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: January 21, 1898
Decided: April 25, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

GALVESTON, HARRISBURG AND SAN ANTONIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. TEXAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 25, 1898. The case was argued before the court on January 21, 1898.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Texas
  • Citation: 170 U.S. 226
  • 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 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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