HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MAYES (1906)

HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MAYES
	Term: 1905
Important Dates
	Argued: March 8, 1906
	Decided: April 2, 1906
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	5-3
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
	Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna

HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MAYES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 2, 1906. The case was argued before the court on March 8, 1906.

In a 5-3 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 Texas State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 201 U.S. 321
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 conservative.