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SAVANNAH, FLORIDA AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. FLORIDA FRUIT EXCHANGE (1897)

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SAVANNAH, FLORIDA AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. FLORIDA FRUIT EXCHANGE
Term: 1896
Important Dates
Argued: November 5, 1896
Decided: May 24, 1897
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

SAVANNAH, FLORIDA AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. FLORIDA FRUIT EXCHANGE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 1897. The case was argued before the court on November 5, 1896.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 167 U.S. 512
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Unspecified, other
  • 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.

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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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