WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. JAMES (1896)

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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. JAMES |
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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.
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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: 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
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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