HUNT v. SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY (1904)

HUNT v. SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Argued: December 1, 1904
	Decided: December 19, 1904
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

HUNT v. SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 19, 1904. The case was argued before the court on December 1, 1904.

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

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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: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 196 U.S. 47
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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 conservative.