NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. PAGE et al., ADMINISTRATOR (1927)

NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. PAGE et al., ADMINISTRATOR
	Term: 1926
Important Dates
	Argued: January 17, 1927
	Decided: April 11, 1927
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. PAGE et al., ADMINISTRATOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 11, 1927. The case was argued before the court on January 17, 1927.

In a 9-0 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 Massachusetts U.S. District 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: Bus or motorized passenger transportation vehicle
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 274 U.S. 65
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Pierce Butler

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.