NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. FREEMAN (1899)

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. FREEMAN
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: April 13, 1899
	Decided: May 15, 1899
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. FREEMAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 15, 1899. The case was argued before the court on April 13, 1899.

In a 7-2 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 Washington U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Washington.

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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: 174 U.S. 379
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: Henry Billings Brown

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.