NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. DE LACEY (1899)

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. DE LACEY
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: January 18, 1899
	Decided: May 22, 1899
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. DE LACEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 22, 1899. The case was argued before the court on January 18, 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 - state and territorial land claims
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 174 U.S. 622
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.