SANTA FE, PRESCOTT & PHOENIX RAILWAY COMPANY v. GRANT BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY (1913)

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SANTA FE, PRESCOTT & PHOENIX RAILWAY COMPANY v. GRANT BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Term: 1912
Important Dates
Argued: January 24, 1913
Decided: April 7, 1913
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

SANTA FE, PRESCOTT & PHOENIX RAILWAY COMPANY v. GRANT BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 7, 1913. The case was argued before the court on January 24, 1913.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Construction industry
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 228 U.S. 177
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Charles Evans Hughes

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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