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BOSWELL'S LESSEE v. OTIS (1850)

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BOSWELL'S LESSEE v. OTIS
Term: 1850
Important Dates
Decided: April 11, 1850
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
John Catron • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne • Levi Woodbury

BOSWELL'S LESSEE v. OTIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 11, 1850.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Ohio U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Ohio.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1850s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: jurisdiction (jurisdiction over non-resident litigants)
  • Petitioner: Investor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Buyer, purchaser
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 50 U.S. 336
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John McLean

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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