WILSON v. HALEY LIVE STOCK COMPANY (1894)

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WILSON v. HALEY LIVE STOCK COMPANY
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Decided: April 16, 1894
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

WILSON v. HALEY LIVE STOCK COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 16, 1894.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Colorado U.S. Circuit for the District of Colorado.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Personal property
  • Petitioner: Defendant
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 153 U.S. 39
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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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