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LOUISVILLE TRUST COMPANY v. LOUISVILLE, NEW ALBANY AND CHICAGO RAILWAY COMPANY (1899)

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LOUISVILLE TRUST COMPANY v. LOUISVILLE, NEW ALBANY AND CHICAGO RAILWAY COMPANY
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: April 24, 1899
Decided: May 22, 1899
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Rufus Wheeler Peckham

LOUISVILLE TRUST COMPANY v. LOUISVILLE, NEW ALBANY AND CHICAGO RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 22, 1899. The case was argued before the court on April 24, 1899.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Indiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Indiana.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 174 U.S. 674
  • 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: David Josiah Brewer

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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