HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al. (1927)

HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al.
	Term: 1926
Important Dates
	Argued: December 2, 1926
	Decided: February 21, 1927
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

HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 21, 1927. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1926.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 273 U.S. 207
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 liberal.