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SAGE et al. v. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF IOWA et al. (1876)

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SAGE et al. v. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF IOWA et al.
Term: 1876
Important Dates
Argued: November 27, 1876
Decided: December 18, 1876
Outcome
No disposition
Vote
7-2
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Ward Hunt • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller

SAGE et al. v. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF IOWA et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 18, 1876. The case was argued before the court on November 27, 1876.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue a ruling. The case originated from the Iowa U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Iowa.

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 - Civil procedure
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 93 U.S. 412
  • 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 unspecifiable.

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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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