VIRGINIA AND ALABAMA COAL COMPANY v. CENTRAL RAILROAD AND BANKING COMPANY OF GEORGIA (1898) - Ballotpedia

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VIRGINIA AND ALABAMA COAL COMPANY v. CENTRAL RAILROAD AND BANKING COMPANY OF GEORGIA

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: December 14, 1897
Decided: May 9, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

VIRGINIA AND ALABAMA COAL COMPANY v. CENTRAL RAILROAD AND BANKING COMPANY OF GEORGIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 9, 1898. The case was argued before the court on December 14, 1897.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Georgia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
Petitioner: Debtor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Coal company or coal mine operator
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 170 U.S. 355
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Edward Douglass White

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.

See also

External links

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Footnotes

↑ 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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