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HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY (1899)

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HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: November 11, 1897
Decided: November 6, 1899
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 6, 1899. The case was argued before the court on November 11, 1897.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 175 U.S. 91
  • 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: Horace Gray

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.

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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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