SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. JOSEPHINE KING (1910)

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. JOSEPHINE KING
	Term: 1909
Important Dates
	Argued: April 6, 1910
	Decided: May 16, 1910
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	5-2
Majority
	William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna
Dissenting
	Oliver Wendell Holmes • Edward Douglass White

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. JOSEPHINE KING is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 16, 1910. The case was argued before the court on April 6, 1910.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Georgia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 217 U.S. 524
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: William Rufus Day

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.