ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MESSINA (1916) - Ballotpedia

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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MESSINA

Term: 1915
Important Dates
Argued: February 23, 1916
Decided: March 6, 1916
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-2
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph McKenna

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MESSINA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1916. The case was argued before the court on February 23, 1916.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Mississippi State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 240 U.S. 395
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: Edward Douglass White
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.

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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