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WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN RAILROAD COMPANY v. HARMON'S ADMINISTRATOR (1893)

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WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN RAILROAD COMPANY v. HARMON'S ADMINISTRATOR
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: January 18, 1893
Decided: March 6, 1893
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras

WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN RAILROAD COMPANY v. HARMON'S ADMINISTRATOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1893. The case was argued before the court on January 18, 1893.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 147 U.S. 571
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.

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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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