MARKET STREET CABLE RAILWAY COMPANY v. ROWLEY (1895)

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MARKET STREET CABLE RAILWAY COMPANY v. ROWLEY
Term: 1894
Important Dates
Decided: January 7, 1895
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown

MARKET STREET CABLE RAILWAY COMPANY v. ROWLEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1895.

In a 7-1 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 California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 155 U.S. 621
  • 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: George Shiras

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.

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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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