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UNITED LINES TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY (1893)

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UNITED LINES TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: January 5, 1893
Decided: January 30, 1893
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field

UNITED LINES TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 30, 1893. The case was argued before the court on January 5, 1893.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 147 U.S. 431
  • 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: Samuel Blatchford

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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