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SWAN LAND AND CATTLE COMPANY v. FRANK (1893)

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SWAN LAND AND CATTLE COMPANY v. FRANK
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: March 21, 1893
Decided: April 10, 1893
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-1
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown

SWAN LAND AND CATTLE COMPANY v. FRANK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 10, 1893. The case was argued before the court on March 21, 1893.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Civil procedure
  • Petitioner: Seller or vendor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 148 U.S. 603
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Howell Edmunds Jackson

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 unspecifiable.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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