RIO GRANDE IRRIGATION AND COLONIZATION COMPANY v. GILDERSLEEVE (1899) - Ballotpedia

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RIO GRANDE IRRIGATION AND COLONIZATION COMPANY v. GILDERSLEEVE

Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: April 20, 1899
Decided: May 15, 1899
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

RIO GRANDE IRRIGATION AND COLONIZATION COMPANY v. GILDERSLEEVE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 15, 1899. The case was argued before the court on April 20, 1899.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Mexico Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 174 U.S. 603
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: George Shiras

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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