SHEFFIELD FURNACE COMPANY v. WITHEROW (1893)

SHEFFIELD FURNACE COMPANY v. WITHEROW
	Term: 1892
Important Dates
	Argued: April 28, 1893
	Decided: May 10, 1893
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras

SHEFFIELD FURNACE COMPANY v. WITHEROW is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 10, 1893. The case was argued before the court on April 28, 1893.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
Petitioner: Consumer, consumer organization
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Construction industry
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 149 U.S. 574
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: David Josiah Brewer

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.