MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MCFADDEN (1894)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MCFADDEN
	Term: 1893
Important Dates
	Argued: March 22, 1894
	Decided: May 26, 1894
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MCFADDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1894. The case was argued before the court on March 22, 1894.

In an 8-0 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 Texas U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Texas.

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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: 154 U.S. 155
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 conservative.