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TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. AMERICAN TIE & TIMBER CO., LTD.

Term: 1913
Important Dates
Argued: January 20, 1914
Decided: June 8, 1914
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Mahlon Pitney

TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. AMERICAN TIE & TIMBER CO., LTD. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 8, 1914. The case was argued before the court on January 20, 1914.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Texas.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Timber company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 234 U.S. 138
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: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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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