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DE TREVILLE v. SMALLS (1879)

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DE TREVILLE v. SMALLS
Term: 1878
Important Dates
Argued: December 20, 1878
Decided: January 20, 1879
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field

DE TREVILLE v. SMALLS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 20, 1879. The case was argued before the court on December 20, 1878.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina U.S. Circuit for the District of South Carolina.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 98 U.S. 517
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Strong

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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