GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY v. HEWES (1901)

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GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY v. HEWES
Term: 1901
Important Dates
Argued: October 15, 1901
Decided: November 18, 1901
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Judgment of the court
Henry Billings Brown
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY v. HEWES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 18, 1901. The case was argued before the court on October 15, 1901.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Mississippi State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Mississippi
  • Citation: 183 U.S. 66
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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.

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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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