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DICKERMAN v. NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY

Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: April 5, 1899
Decided: January 22, 1900
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras

DICKERMAN v. NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 22, 1900. The case was argued before the court on April 5, 1899.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
Petitioner: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 176 U.S. 181
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: Henry Billings Brown

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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