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SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY v. TILGHMAN (1915)

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SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY v. TILGHMAN
Term: 1914
Important Dates
Argued: April 22, 1915
Decided: May 17, 1915
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY v. TILGHMAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 17, 1915. The case was argued before the court on April 22, 1915.

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

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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: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 237 U.S. 499
  • 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: Willis Van Devanter

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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