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LEATHER MANUFACTURERS' BANK v. MERCHANTS' BANK

Term: 1888
Important Dates
Argued: December 2, 1887
Decided: October 22, 1888
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller

LEATHER MANUFACTURERS' BANK v. MERCHANTS' BANK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 22, 1888. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1887.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 128 U.S. 26
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Horace Gray

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.

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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