WALTER v. NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD COMPANY (1893)

WALTER v. NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD COMPANY
	Term: 1892
Important Dates
	Argued: January 11, 1893
	Decided: January 23, 1893
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-0
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras

WALTER v. NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 23, 1893. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1893.

In a 7-0 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 South Carolina U.S. Circuit for the District of South Carolina.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of jurisdiction (cf. judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal from federal district courts or courts of appeals)
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: South Carolina
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 147 U.S. 370
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: 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 conservative.