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AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al. v. DUNKEN, ADMINISTRATRIX OF DUNKEN (1924)

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AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al. v. DUNKEN, ADMINISTRATRIX OF DUNKEN
Term: 1924
Important Dates
Argued: October 14, 1924
Decided: December 15, 1924
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al. v. DUNKEN, ADMINISTRATRIX OF DUNKEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 15, 1924. The case was argued before the court on October 14, 1924.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 266 U.S. 389
  • 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: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: George Sutherland

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.

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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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