SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al. v. DARNELL-TAENZER LUMBER COMPANY et al. (1918)

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al. v. DARNELL-TAENZER LUMBER COMPANY et al.
	Term: 1917
Important Dates
	Argued: January 8, 1918
	Decided: January 21, 1918
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al. v. DARNELL-TAENZER LUMBER COMPANY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 21, 1918. The case was argued before the court on January 8, 1918.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Forest products, lumber, or logging company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 245 U.S. 531
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: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 liberal.