PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY v. NAPIER SHIPPING COMPANY (1897)

PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY v. NAPIER SHIPPING COMPANY
	Term: 1896
Important Dates
	Argued: January 25, 1897
	Decided: March 22, 1897
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY v. NAPIER SHIPPING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 22, 1897. The case was argued before the court on January 25, 1897.

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 New York Southern 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: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 166 U.S. 280
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: 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.