HYER v. RICHMOND TRACTION COMPANY (1897)

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HYER v. RICHMOND TRACTION COMPANY
Term: 1897
Important Dates
Decided: December 6, 1897
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
John Marshall Harlan
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

HYER v. RICHMOND TRACTION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 6, 1897.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Virginia.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 168 U.S. 471
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: David Josiah Brewer

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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