KER AND COMPANY v. COUDEN (1912)

KER AND COMPANY v. COUDEN
	Term: 1911
Important Dates
	Argued: April 27, 1911
	Decided: February 19, 1912
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	7-1
Majority
	William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Joseph McKenna

KER AND COMPANY v. COUDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 19, 1912. The case was argued before the court on April 27, 1911.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Philippines Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 223 U.S. 268
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 liberal.