GLEESON v. VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILROAD COMPANY (1891)

GLEESON v. VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILROAD COMPANY
	Term: 1890
Important Dates
	Argued: April 6, 1891
	Decided: May 11, 1891
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer

GLEESON v. VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 11, 1891. The case was argued before the court on April 6, 1891.

In an 8-1 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 Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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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: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 140 U.S. 435
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: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

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 liberal.