LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. WEST COAST NAVAL STORES COMPANY (1905)

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. WEST COAST NAVAL STORES COMPANY
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Decided: May 29, 1905
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	John Marshall Harlan

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. WEST COAST NAVAL STORES COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 29, 1905.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Florida U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Florida.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 198 U.S. 483
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.