NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. ADAMS (1904)

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. ADAMS
	Term: 1903
Important Dates
	Argued: January 25, 1904
	Decided: February 23, 1904
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. ADAMS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1904. The case was argued before the court on January 25, 1904.

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: 192 U.S. 440
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: David Josiah Brewer

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.