TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. CLAYTON (1899)

TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. CLAYTON
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: January 27, 1899
	Decided: February 20, 1899
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
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

TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. CLAYTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1899. The case was argued before the court on January 27, 1899.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 173 U.S. 348
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: John Marshall Harlan

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 liberal.