WASHINGTON & IDAHO RAILROAD COMPANY v. COEUR D'ALENE RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION COMPANY (1895)

WASHINGTON & IDAHO RAILROAD COMPANY v. COEUR D'ALENE RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION COMPANY
	Term: 1895
Important Dates
	Argued: November 13, 1895
	Decided: December 2, 1895
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

WASHINGTON & IDAHO RAILROAD COMPANY v. COEUR D'ALENE RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 2, 1895. The case was argued before the court on November 13, 1895.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Idaho U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Idaho.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 160 U.S. 77
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: George Shiras

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.