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COLE v. CUNNINGHAM (1890)

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COLE v. CUNNINGHAM
Term: 1889
Important Dates
Decided: January 20, 1890
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller

COLE v. CUNNINGHAM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 20, 1890.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts State Supreme Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 133 U.S. 107
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Melville Weston Fuller

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 unspecifiable.

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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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