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TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY (1895)

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TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY
Term: 1894
Important Dates
Argued: December 3, 1894
Decided: January 7, 1895
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownStephen Johnson FieldMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White

TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1895. The case was argued before the court on December 3, 1894.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 155 U.S. 585
  • 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: George Shiras

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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