GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY (1929)

GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
	Term: 1929
Important Dates
	Argued: October 25, 1929
	Decided: November 25, 1929
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 25, 1929. The case was argued before the court on October 25, 1929.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 280 U.S. 72
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Howard Taft

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 conservative.