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HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. WILSON

Term: 1902
Important Dates
Argued: November 10, 1902
Decided: January 5, 1903
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
Henry Billings Brown

HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. WILSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 5, 1903. The case was argued before the court on November 10, 1902.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 187 U.S. 467
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: David Josiah Brewer

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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