JEFFRIES v. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (1875) - Ballotpedia

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JEFFRIES v. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Term: 1874
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 1875
Decided: April 5, 1875
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Joseph Bradley • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Nathan Clifford • Samuel Freeman Miller

JEFFRIES v. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 5, 1875. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 1875.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Missouri.

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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: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 89 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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Ward Hunt

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.

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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