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SAXONVILLE MILLS v. RUSSELL, COLLECTOR

Term: 1885
Important Dates
Argued: December 4, 1885
Decided: December 14, 1885
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

SAXONVILLE MILLS v. RUSSELL, COLLECTOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 14, 1885. The case was argued before the court on December 4, 1885.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Federal Taxation - Federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 116 U.S. 13
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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Matthews

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 liberal.

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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