NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. WINTER'S ADMINISTRATOR (1892)

NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. WINTER'S ADMINISTRATOR
	Term: 1891
Important Dates
	Argued: January 19, 1892
	Decided: February 1, 1892
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. WINTER'S ADMINISTRATOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 1, 1892. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1892.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Iowa 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: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 143 U.S. 60
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: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

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.