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JOHN ZACHARIE AND WIFE, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR v. HENRY FRANKLIN AND WIFE (1838)

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JOHN ZACHARIE AND WIFE, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR v. HENRY FRANKLIN AND WIFE
Term: 1838
Important Dates
Argued: March 5, 1838
Decided: March 8, 1838
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • Philip Pendelton Barbour • John Catron • John McKinley • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne

JOHN ZACHARIE AND WIFE, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR v. HENRY FRANKLIN AND WIFE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 8, 1838. The case was argued before the court on March 5, 1838.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana Eastern U.S. District Court.

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: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Debtor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 37 U.S. 151
  • 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: Philip Pendelton Barbour

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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