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IRON SILVER MINING COMPANY v. MIKE AND STARR GOLD AND SILVER MINING COMPANY (1892)

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IRON SILVER MINING COMPANY v. MIKE AND STARR GOLD AND SILVER MINING COMPANY
Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: November 20, 1891
Decided: February 29, 1892
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan

IRON SILVER MINING COMPANY v. MIKE AND STARR GOLD AND SILVER MINING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 29, 1892. The case was argued before the court on November 20, 1891.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Colorado U.S. Circuit for the District of Colorado.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 143 U.S. 394
  • 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: 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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