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SIOUX CITY AND ST. PAUL RAILROAD COMPANY v. COUNTRYMAN

Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: April 16, 1895
Decided: October 21, 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

SIOUX CITY AND ST. PAUL RAILROAD COMPANY v. COUNTRYMAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 21, 1895. The case was argued before the court on April 16, 1895.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Iowa State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 159 U.S. 377
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: John Marshall Harlan

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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