LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. SMITH, HUGGINS & COMPANY (1907)

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. SMITH, HUGGINS & COMPANY
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: January 31, 1907
	Decided: February 25, 1907
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. SMITH, HUGGINS & COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1907. The case was argued before the court on January 31, 1907.

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

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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: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 204 U.S. 551
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: 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 conservative.