BARRETT, AS PRESIDENT OF THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. VAN PELT (1925) - Ballotpedia

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BARRETT, AS PRESIDENT OF THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. VAN PELT

Term: 1924
Important Dates
Argued: January 6, 1925
Decided: April 13, 1925
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

BARRETT, AS PRESIDENT OF THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. VAN PELT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 13, 1925. The case was argued before the court on January 6, 1925.

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

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
Petitioner: Trucking company, or motor carrier
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 268 U.S. 85
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Pierce Butler

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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