UNION REFRIGERATOR TRANSIT COMPANY v. KENTUCKY (1905)

UNION REFRIGERATOR TRANSIT COMPANY v. KENTUCKY
	Term: 1905
Important Dates
	Argued: October 13, 1905
	Decided: November 13, 1905
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Concurring
	Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Oliver Wendell Holmes

UNION REFRIGERATOR TRANSIT COMPANY v. KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 13, 1905. The case was argued before the court on October 13, 1905.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: jurisdiction (jurisdiction over non-resident litigants)
Petitioner: State or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
Petitioner state: Kentucky
Respondent type: state or U.S. supreme court
Respondent state: Kentucky
Citation: 199 U.S. 194
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: Henry Billings Brown

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.