SEEBERGER v. WRIGHT AND LAWTHER OIL AND LEAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY (1895)

SEEBERGER v. WRIGHT AND LAWTHER OIL AND LEAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY
	Term: 1894
Important Dates
	Argued: January 31, 1895
	Decided: March 18, 1895
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

SEEBERGER v. WRIGHT AND LAWTHER OIL AND LEAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 18, 1895. The case was argued before the court on January 31, 1895.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federal Taxation - Federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: United States
Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 157 U.S. 183
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: Henry Billings Brown

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.