ST. ANTHONY FALLS WATER POWER COMPANY v. ST. PAUL WATER COMMISSIONERS. (1897)

ST. ANTHONY FALLS WATER POWER COMPANY v. ST. PAUL WATER COMMISSIONERS.
	Term: 1897
Important Dates
	Argued: October 13, 1897
	Decided: November 29, 1897
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
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

ST. ANTHONY FALLS WATER POWER COMPANY v. ST. PAUL WATER COMMISSIONERS. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 29, 1897. The case was argued before the court on October 13, 1897.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Minnesota State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: natural resources (cf. natural resources - environmental protection)
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Minnesota
Citation: 168 U.S. 349
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.