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CANADA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA (1900)

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CANADA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: October 26, 1899
Decided: January 8, 1900
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanJoseph McKennaRufus Wheeler PeckhamGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White

CANADA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 8, 1900. The case was argued before the court on October 26, 1899.

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

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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: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 175 U.S. 609
  • 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: George Shiras

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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