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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. HALL

Term: 1887
Important Dates
Argued: November 30, 1887
Decided: January 30, 1888
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. HALL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 30, 1888. The case was argued before the court on November 30, 1887.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Private person
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 124 U.S. 444
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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Matthews

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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