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THE YAZOO AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY v. CITY OF VICKSBURG (1908)

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THE YAZOO AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY v. CITY OF VICKSBURG
Term: 1907
Important Dates
Argued: February 28, 1908
Decided: April 6, 1908
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

THE YAZOO AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY v. CITY OF VICKSBURG is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 6, 1908. The case was argued before the court on February 28, 1908.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: Mississippi
  • Citation: 209 U.S. 358
  • 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: William Rufus Day

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 unspecifiable.

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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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