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HARRIET E. HOOK AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS v. JOHN LINTON, CURATOR (1836)

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HARRIET E. HOOK AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS v. JOHN LINTON, CURATOR
Term: 1836
Important Dates
Argued: January 28, 1836
Decided: January 30, 1836
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
5-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • John McLean • Joseph Story • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne

HARRIET E. HOOK AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS v. JOHN LINTON, CURATOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 30, 1836. The case was argued before the court on January 28, 1836.

In a 5-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. District Court.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 35 U.S. 107
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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