GREAT WESTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BURNHAM (1896) - Ballotpedia

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GREAT WESTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BURNHAM

Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: March 19, 1896
Decided: April 13, 1896
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

GREAT WESTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BURNHAM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 13, 1896. The case was argued before the court on March 19, 1896.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Wisconsin State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 162 U.S. 339
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: Horace Gray

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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