GREELEY v. LOWE (1894)

GREELEY v. LOWE
	Term: 1894
Important Dates
	Decided: October 29, 1894
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-1
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Melville Weston Fuller

GREELEY v. LOWE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 29, 1894.

In a 7-1 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 Florida U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Florida.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal district courts or territorial courts
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
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: 155 U.S. 58
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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 liberal.