THOMAS v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (1904)

THOMAS v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Argued: March 3, 1904
	Decided: November 14, 1904
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

THOMAS v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 14, 1904. The case was argued before the court on March 3, 1904.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State college or university
Respondent state: Ohio
Citation: 195 U.S. 207
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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 conservative.