WILDER, ASSESSOR, v. INTER-ISLAND STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED (1908)

WILDER, ASSESSOR, v. INTER-ISLAND STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED
	Term: 1908
Important Dates
	Decided: November 30, 1908
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

WILDER, ASSESSOR, v. INTER-ISLAND STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 30, 1908.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Hawaii Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: Hawaii
Respondent type: employer. If employer's relations with employees are governed by the nature of the employer's business (e.g., railroad, boat), rather than labor law generally, the more specific designation is used in place of Employer.
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 211 U.S. 239
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: William Rufus Day

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.