RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. ELLIOTT (1893) - Ballotpedia

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RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. ELLIOTT

Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: April 5, 1893
Decided: May 1, 1893
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras

RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. ELLIOTT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 1, 1893. The case was argued before the court on April 5, 1893.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 149 U.S. 266
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: David Josiah Brewer

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.

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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