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ADAMS v. COWEN (1900)

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ADAMS v. COWEN
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 1900
Decided: April 16, 1900
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

ADAMS v. COWEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 16, 1900. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1900.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Wills and trusts
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 177 U.S. 471
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: David Josiah Brewer

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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