KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. CARL (1913)

KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. CARL
	Term: 1912
Important Dates
	Argued: March 5, 1912
	Decided: March 10, 1913
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Charles Evans Hughes • Mahlon Pitney

KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. CARL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 10, 1913. The case was argued before the court on March 5, 1912.

In a 7-2 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 Arkansas 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: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 227 U.S. 639
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: Horace Harmon Lurton

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.