MULLEN v. WESTERN UNION BEEF COMPANY (1899)

MULLEN v. WESTERN UNION BEEF COMPANY
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: January 18, 1899
	Decided: February 20, 1899
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

MULLEN v. WESTERN UNION BEEF COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1899. The case was argued before the court on January 18, 1899.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Colorado State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 173 U.S. 116
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.