GUTIERRES v. ALBUQUERQUE LAND AND IRRIGATION COMPANY (1903)

GUTIERRES v. ALBUQUERQUE LAND AND IRRIGATION COMPANY
	Term: 1902
Important Dates
	Argued: January 9, 1902
	Decided: February 23, 1903
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Joseph McKenna

GUTIERRES v. ALBUQUERQUE LAND AND IRRIGATION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1903. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 1902.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Mexico Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Pipe line company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 188 U.S. 545
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Edward Douglass White

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.