MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. MAY (1904)

MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. MAY
	Term: 1903
Important Dates
	Decided: May 2, 1904
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	6-3
Majority
	William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Concurring
	David Josiah Brewer
Dissenting
	Henry Billings Brown • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. MAY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 2, 1904.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas 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: 194 U.S. 267
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: 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.