PROVIDENCE & NEW YORK STEAMSHIP COMPANY v. HILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY (1883)

PROVIDENCE & NEW YORK STEAMSHIP COMPANY v. HILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY
	Term: 1883
Important Dates
	Argued: April 2, 1883
	Decided: December 17, 1883
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
	Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray

PROVIDENCE & NEW YORK STEAMSHIP COMPANY v. HILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 17, 1883. The case was argued before the court on April 2, 1883.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts State Trial 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: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 109 U.S. 578
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: Joseph Bradley

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.