NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MYERS (1899)

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MYERS
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: October 21, 1898
	Decided: January 23, 1899
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	5-4
Majority
	Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MYERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 23, 1899. The case was argued before the court on October 21, 1898.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Montana U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Montana.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Montana
Citation: 172 U.S. 589
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Joseph McKenna

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.