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KAUKAUNA WATER POWER COMPANY v. GREEN BAY AND MISSISSIPPI CANAL COMPANY (1891)

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KAUKAUNA WATER POWER COMPANY v. GREEN BAY AND MISSISSIPPI CANAL COMPANY
Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: November 2, 1891
Decided: December 21, 1891
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

KAUKAUNA WATER POWER COMPANY v. GREEN BAY AND MISSISSIPPI CANAL COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 21, 1891. The case was argued before the court on November 2, 1891.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Wisconsin State Trial Court.

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: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 142 U.S. 254
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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.

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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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