MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. HABER (1898)

MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. HABER
	Term: 1897
Important Dates
	Argued: January 27, 1898
	Decided: March 14, 1898
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer

MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. HABER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 14, 1898. The case was argued before the court on January 27, 1898.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kansas State Trial Court.

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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: 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: 169 U.S. 613
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 liberal.