WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY (1904)

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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1904
Important Dates
Argued: October 19, 1904
Decided: December 12, 1904
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 12, 1904. The case was argued before the court on October 19, 1904.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 195 U.S. 594
  • 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: Joseph McKenna

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 unspecifiable.

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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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