SCHOFIELD v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY (1885) - Ballotpedia

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SCHOFIELD v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY

Term: 1884
Important Dates
Argued: April 17, 1885
Decided: May 4, 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

SCHOFIELD v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 4, 1885. The case was argued before the court on April 17, 1885.

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

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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: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 114 U.S. 615
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: Samuel Blatchford

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.

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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