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SILLIMAN v. HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE COMPANY

Term: 1861
Important Dates
Argued: December 12, 1860
Decided: January 27, 1862
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
3-3
Equally divided vote
John Catron • Nathan Clifford • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

SILLIMAN v. HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 27, 1862. The case was argued before the court on December 12, 1860.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 66 U.S. 582
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Nelson

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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