PRIMROSE v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY (1894)

PRIMROSE v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
	Term: 1893
Important Dates
	Argued: November 1, 1893
	Decided: May 26, 1894
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	6-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras
Dissenting
	Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan

PRIMROSE v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1894. The case was argued before the court on November 1, 1893.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

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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: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 154 U.S. 1
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: Horace Gray

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.