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LAKE STREET ELEVATED RAILROAD COMPANY v. FARMERS' LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY (1901)

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LAKE STREET ELEVATED RAILROAD COMPANY v. FARMERS' LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY
Term: 1900
Important Dates
Decided: May 27, 1901
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

LAKE STREET ELEVATED RAILROAD COMPANY v. FARMERS' LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1901.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Illinois State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 182 U.S. 417
  • 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: George Shiras

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.

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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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