LUMBERMAN'S BANK v. HUSTON (1897)

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LUMBERMAN'S BANK v. HUSTON
Term: 1896
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1897
Decided: May 10, 1897
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Concurring
Edward Douglass White

LUMBERMAN'S BANK v. HUSTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 10, 1897. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1897.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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: Federal Taxation - federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Department or Secretary of the Treasury
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 167 U.S. 203
  • 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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