LEAVENWORTH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY (1890)

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LEAVENWORTH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
Term: 1889
Important Dates
Argued: April 3, 1890
Decided: April 14, 1890
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller

LEAVENWORTH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 14, 1890. The case was argued before the court on April 3, 1890.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Missouri.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Petitioner state: Missouri
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 134 U.S. 688
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Samuel Blatchford

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 unspecifiable.

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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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