JULIAN v. CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY (1904)

JULIAN v. CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY
	Term: 1903
Important Dates
	Argued: January 21, 1904
	Decided: February 23, 1904
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

JULIAN v. CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1904. The case was argued before the court on January 21, 1904.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Carolina U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of North Carolina.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Petitioner state: North Carolina
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 193 U.S. 93
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: William Rufus Day

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 liberal.