PEARSALL v. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY (1896)

PEARSALL v. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY
	Term: 1895
Important Dates
	Decided: March 30, 1896
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field

PEARSALL v. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 30, 1896.

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 Minnesota U.S. Circuit for the District of Minnesota.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 161 U.S. 646
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: 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 liberal.