TERRE HAUTE AND INDIANAPOLIS RAILROAD COMPANY v. INDIANA EX REL. KETCHAM (1904)

TERRE HAUTE AND INDIANAPOLIS RAILROAD COMPANY v. INDIANA EX REL. KETCHAM
	Term: 1903
Important Dates
	Argued: April 29, 1904
	Decided: May 31, 1904
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

TERRE HAUTE AND INDIANAPOLIS RAILROAD COMPANY v. INDIANA EX REL. KETCHAM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 1904. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1904.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Indiana
Citation: 194 U.S. 579
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.