HARDIN v. JORDAN (1891)

HARDIN v. JORDAN
	Term: 1890
Important Dates
	Argued: January 23, 1891
	Decided: May 11, 1891
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	6-3
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray

HARDIN v. JORDAN 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 January 23, 1891.

In a 6-3 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 Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 140 U.S. 371
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: Joseph Bradley

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 unspecifiable.