CRAWFORD ALLEN, APPELLANT v. JOHN HAMMOND, APPELLEE (1837) - Ballotpedia

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CRAWFORD ALLEN, APPELLANT v. JOHN HAMMOND, APPELLEE

Term: 1837
Important Dates
Argued: January 30, 1837
Decided: February 3, 1837
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • Philip Pendelton Barbour • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne

CRAWFORD ALLEN, APPELLANT v. JOHN HAMMOND, APPELLEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 3, 1837. The case was argued before the court on January 30, 1837.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Rhode Island U.S. Circuit for the District of Rhode Island.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1830s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 36 U.S. 63
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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 unspecifiable.

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External links

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Footnotes

↑ 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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