SECURITY LAND AND EXPLORATION COMPANY v. WECKEY (1904) - Ballotpedia

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SECURITY LAND AND EXPLORATION COMPANY v. WECKEY

Term: 1903
Important Dates
Argued: January 19, 1904
Decided: February 29, 1904
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

SECURITY LAND AND EXPLORATION COMPANY v. WECKEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 29, 1904. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1904.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 193 U.S. 188
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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 unspecifiable.

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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