RICHARDSON v. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY (1898) - Ballotpedia

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RICHARDSON v. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Decided: January 17, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

RICHARDSON v. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 17, 1898.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state and territorial land claims
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Defendant
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 169 U.S. 128
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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 liberal.

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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