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JOHN M'NIEL, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. LOWELL HOLBROOK (1838)

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JOHN M'NIEL, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. LOWELL HOLBROOK
Term: 1838
Important Dates
Decided: February 15, 1838
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Philip Pendelton Barbour • John Catron • John McKinley • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
Henry Baldwin

JOHN M'NIEL, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. LOWELL HOLBROOK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 15, 1838.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Georgia.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1830s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 37 U.S. 84
  • 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: Roger Brooke Taney

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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