IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. COOS COUNTY (1894)

IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. COOS COUNTY
	Term: 1893
Important Dates
	Decided: January 29, 1894
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-1
Majority
	Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer

IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. COOS COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 29, 1894.

In a 7-1 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 New Hampshire U.S. Circuit for the District of New Hampshire.

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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: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 151 U.S. 452
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: Howell Edmunds Jackson

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.