MASON CITY AND FORT DODGE RAILROAD COMPANY v. BOYNTON (1907)

MASON CITY AND FORT DODGE RAILROAD COMPANY v. BOYNTON
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: January 22, 1907
	Decided: February 25, 1907
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
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

MASON CITY AND FORT DODGE RAILROAD COMPANY v. BOYNTON 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 22, 1907.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Iowa U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Iowa.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 204 U.S. 570
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.