YAZOO AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY v. BREWER (1913) - Ballotpedia

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YAZOO AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY v. BREWER

Term: 1913
Important Dates
Argued: November 12, 1913
Decided: December 1, 1913
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

YAZOO AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY v. BREWER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 1, 1913. The case was argued before the court on November 12, 1913.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Louisiana State Trial Court.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: adequate non-federal grounds for decision
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: 231 U.S. 245
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: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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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