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COLT & ANOTHER v. COLT, EXECUTRIX (1884)

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COLT & ANOTHER v. COLT, EXECUTRIX
Term: 1883
Important Dates
Argued: April 18, 1884
Decided: May 5, 1884
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

COLT & ANOTHER v. COLT, EXECUTRIX is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 5, 1884. The case was argued before the court on April 18, 1884.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower 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: Civil Rights - Juveniles (cf. rights of illegitimates)
  • Petitioner: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 111 U.S. 566
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Matthews

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 liberal.

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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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