UNITED STATES v. DETROIT TIMBER AND LUMBER COMPANY (1906)

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UNITED STATES v. DETROIT TIMBER AND LUMBER COMPANY
Term: 1905
Important Dates
Argued: December 7, 1905
Decided: February 19, 1906
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna

UNITED STATES v. DETROIT TIMBER AND LUMBER COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 19, 1906. The case was argued before the court on December 7, 1905.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Arkansas.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Timber company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 200 U.S. 321
  • 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: David Josiah Brewer

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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