ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND MANITOBA RAILWAY COMPANY v. TODD COUNTY (1892) - Ballotpedia

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ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND MANITOBA RAILWAY COMPANY v. TODD COUNTY

Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: December 18, 1891
Decided: January 4, 1892
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan

ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND MANITOBA RAILWAY COMPANY v. TODD COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 4, 1892. The case was argued before the court on December 18, 1891.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Minnesota State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Minnesota
Citation: 142 U.S. 282
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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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