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GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. REED et al. (1926)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. REED et al.
Term: 1925
Important Dates
Decided: April 12, 1926
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. REED et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 12, 1926.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 270 U.S. 539
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

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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