THIRD STREET AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY COMPANY v. LEWIS (1899)

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THIRD STREET AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY COMPANY v. LEWIS
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Decided: March 20, 1899
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
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

THIRD STREET AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY COMPANY v. LEWIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 20, 1899.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 173 U.S. 457
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.

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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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