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WINONA AND ST. PETER RAILROAD COMPANY v. PLAINVIEW.

Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: January 27, 1892
Decided: February 29, 1892
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

WINONA AND ST. PETER RAILROAD COMPANY v. PLAINVIEW. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 29, 1892. The case was argued before the court on January 27, 1892.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Minnesota State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 143 U.S. 371
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: Samuel Blatchford

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 conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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