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INGERSOLL v. CORAM (1908)

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INGERSOLL v. CORAM |
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Term: 1908 |
Important Dates |
Argued: March 11, 1908 |
Decided: December 7, 1908 |
Outcome |
Reversed |
Vote |
7-2 |
Majority |
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White |
Dissenting |
Oliver Wendell Holmes • William Henry Moody |
INGERSOLL v. CORAM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 7, 1908. The case was argued before the court on March 11, 1908.
In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Private Action - Wills and trusts
- Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 211 U.S. 335
- 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: Joseph McKenna
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
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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