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WEST WISCONSIN RAILWAY COMPANY v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF TREMPEALEAU COUNTY (1876)

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WEST WISCONSIN RAILWAY COMPANY v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF TREMPEALEAU COUNTY
Term: 1876
Important Dates
Argued: October 20, 1876
Decided: October 30, 1876
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

WEST WISCONSIN RAILWAY COMPANY v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF TREMPEALEAU COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 30, 1876. The case was argued before the court on October 20, 1876.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Wisconsin State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Wisconsin
  • Citation: 93 U.S. 595
  • 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: Noah Haynes Swayne

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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