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A. C. FROST & CO. v. COEUR D'ALENE MINES CORP. (1941)

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A. C. FROST & CO. v. COEUR D'ALENE MINES CORP.
Term: 1940
Important Dates
Argued: December 18, 1940
Decided: January 20, 1941
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts
Concurring
Harlan Fiske Stone

A. C. FROST & CO. v. COEUR D'ALENE MINES CORP. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 20, 1941. The case was argued before the court on December 18, 1940.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Idaho State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 312 U.S. 38
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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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