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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. JAMES

Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: April 2, 1896
Decided: May 4, 1896
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. JAMES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 4, 1896. The case was argued before the court on April 2, 1896.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial Court.

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.

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: Seller or vendor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 162 U.S. 650
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.

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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