LEROY FIBRE COMPANY v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY (1914) - Ballotpedia

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LEROY FIBRE COMPANY v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY

Term: 1913
Important Dates
Decided: February 24, 1914
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter
Concurring
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Edward Douglass White

LEROY FIBRE COMPANY v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 1914.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Minnesota U.S. Circuit for the District of Minnesota.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 232 U.S. 340
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Joseph McKenna

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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