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TELLURIDE POWER TRANSMISSION COMPANY v. RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY (1900)

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TELLURIDE POWER TRANSMISSION COMPANY v. RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: December 8, 1899
Decided: January 8, 1900
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

TELLURIDE POWER TRANSMISSION COMPANY v. RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 8, 1900. The case was argued before the court on December 8, 1899.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Utah 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Electric or hydroelectric power utility, power cooperative, or gas and electric company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 175 U.S. 639
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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.

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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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