Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, 157 U.S. 429, affirmed on rehearing, 158 U.S. 601, was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States. In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court struck
The Fuller Court.
John Marshall Harlan
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John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
…was declared by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1988 to have been "effectively overruled by subsequent case law" (see South Carolina v. Baker). Justices John Marshall Harlan, Howell Edmunds Jackson, Edward Douglass White, and Henry Billings Brown dissented from the majority opinion. Justice White argued: It is, I submit…
Harlan, 1865–1880
Colonel Harlan of the Union Army
The Supreme Court, headed by Melville Fuller, 1898; with Harlan in the front row, second from left
John Marshall Harlan