POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE CO v. NEW HOPE (1904)

POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE CO v. NEW HOPE
	Term: 1903
Important Dates
	Argued: December 11, 1903
	Decided: January 4, 1904
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • John Marshall Harlan

POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE CO v. NEW HOPE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 4, 1904. The case was argued before the court on December 11, 1903.

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 Pennsylvania State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Pennsylvania
Citation: 192 U.S. 55
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.