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HATFIELD v. KING

Term: 1901
Important Dates
Decided: June 2, 1902
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

HATFIELD v. KING is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 2, 1902.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the West Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of West Virginia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Miscellaneous judicial power, especially diversity jurisdiction
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
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: 186 U.S. 178
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.

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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