SIOUX CITY AND ST. PAUL RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES (1896)

SIOUX CITY AND ST. PAUL RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES
	Term: 1895
Important Dates
	Decided: January 13, 1896
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

SIOUX CITY AND ST. PAUL RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 13, 1896.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Iowa U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Iowa.

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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: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 160 U.S. 686
How the court took jurisdiction: Rehearing or restored to calendar for reargument
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.