SPOKANE AND BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY COMPANY v. WASHINGTON AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY (1911) - Ballotpedia

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SPOKANE AND BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY COMPANY v. WASHINGTON AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

Term: 1910
Important Dates
Decided: January 3, 1911
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

SPOKANE AND BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY COMPANY v. WASHINGTON AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1911.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: collateral estoppel or res judicata
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 219 U.S. 166
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: 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 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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