HONOLULU RAPID TRANSIT AND LAND COMPANY v. WILDER, ASSESSOR (1908)

HONOLULU RAPID TRANSIT AND LAND COMPANY v. WILDER, ASSESSOR
	Term: 1908
Important Dates
	Argued: October 28, 1908
	Decided: November 16, 1908
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

HONOLULU RAPID TRANSIT AND LAND COMPANY v. WILDER, ASSESSOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 16, 1908. The case was argued before the court on October 28, 1908.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Hawaii
Citation: 211 U.S. 144
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.