WOODSTOCK IRON COMPANY v. RICHMOND AND DANVILLE EXTENSION COMPANY (1889) - Ballotpedia

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WOODSTOCK IRON COMPANY v. RICHMOND AND DANVILLE EXTENSION COMPANY

Term: 1888
Important Dates
Argued: February 1, 1889
Decided: March 5, 1889
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • Samuel Freeman Miller

WOODSTOCK IRON COMPANY v. RICHMOND AND DANVILLE EXTENSION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 5, 1889. The case was argued before the court on February 1, 1889.

In a 6-2 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 Alabama U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Alabama.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: Debtor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Construction industry
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 129 U.S. 643
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: Stephen Johnson Field

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.

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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