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POLLEYS v. BLACK RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANY (1885)

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POLLEYS v. BLACK RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANY
Term: 1884
Important Dates
Decided: January 12, 1885
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Burnham Woods

POLLEYS v. BLACK RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 12, 1885.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Wisconsin State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 113 U.S. 81
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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