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BOESE, RECEIVER, v. KING & OTHERS (1883)

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BOESE, RECEIVER, v. KING & OTHERS
Term: 1882
Important Dates
Decided: April 30, 1883
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
Samuel Blatchford • Horace Gray • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller

BOESE, RECEIVER, v. KING & OTHERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 30, 1883.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed 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 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Bankruptcy (except in the context of priority of federal fiscal claims)
  • Petitioner: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 108 U.S. 379
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall Harlan

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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