JAMES D'ARCY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. MORRIS KETCHUM, THOMAS ROGERS, AND EDWARD BEMENT, COPARTNERS, TRADING UNDER THE NAME AND FIRM OF KETCHUM, ROGERS, AND BEMENT (1851)

JAMES D'ARCY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. MORRIS KETCHUM, THOMAS ROGERS, AND EDWARD BEMENT, COPARTNERS, TRADING UNDER THE NAME AND FIRM OF KETCHUM, ROGERS, AND BEMENT
	Term: 1850
Important Dates
	Argued: February 4, 1851
	Decided: February 25, 1851
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	John Catron • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McKinley • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne • Levi Woodbury

JAMES D'ARCY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. MORRIS KETCHUM, THOMAS ROGERS, AND EDWARD BEMENT, COPARTNERS, TRADING UNDER THE NAME AND FIRM OF KETCHUM, ROGERS, AND BEMENT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1851. The case was argued before the court on February 4, 1851.

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 Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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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: Defendant
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 52 U.S. 165
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: Roger Brooke Taney
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Catron

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.