PULLMAN'S PALACE CAR COMPANY v. CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY (1898) - Ballotpedia

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PULLMAN'S PALACE CAR COMPANY v. CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: March 24, 1898
Decided: May 31, 1898
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

PULLMAN'S PALACE CAR COMPANY v. CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 1898. The case was argued before the court on March 24, 1898.

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 U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: Tenant or lessee
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Defendant
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 171 U.S. 138
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: 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 unspecifiable.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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