LEHIGH MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. KELLY (1895)

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LEHIGH MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. KELLY
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Decided: December 16, 1895
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • George Shiras

LEHIGH MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. KELLY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 16, 1895.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Virginia.

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: Judicial Power - Standing to sue: adversary parties
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • 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: 160 U.S. 327
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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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