MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. MCCANN (1899) - Ballotpedia

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MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. MCCANN

Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: October 11, 1898
Decided: May 22, 1899
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. MCCANN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 22, 1899. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1898.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 174 U.S. 580
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: Edward Douglass White

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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