LANASA FRUIT STEAMSHIP & IMPORTING CO. v. UNIVERSAL INSURANCE CO. (1938)

LANASA FRUIT STEAMSHIP & IMPORTING CO. v. UNIVERSAL INSURANCE CO.
	Term: 1937
Important Dates
	Argued: December 10, 1937
	Decided: January 10, 1938
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Hugo Black • Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Charles Evans Hughes • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
	James Clark McReynolds • George Sutherland

LANASA FRUIT STEAMSHIP & IMPORTING CO. v. UNIVERSAL INSURANCE CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 10, 1938. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1937.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maryland U.S. District Court.

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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: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 302 U.S. 556
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
Who wrote the majority opinion: Charles Evans Hughes

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 liberal.