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RAILWAY COMPANY v. STEWART (1877)

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RAILWAY COMPANY v. STEWART
Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: October 12, 1877
Decided: November 19, 1877
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

RAILWAY COMPANY v. STEWART is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 19, 1877. The case was argued before the court on October 12, 1877.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kansas U.S. Circuit for the District of Kansas.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 95 U.S. 279
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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.

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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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