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GIRARD INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY v. COOPER

Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: March 23, 1896
Decided: April 20, 1896
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

GIRARD INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY v. COOPER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1896. The case was argued before the court on March 23, 1896.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Indian Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Construction industry
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 162 U.S. 529
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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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