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LIVERPOOL AND GREAT WESTERN STEAM COMPANY v. PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY (1889)

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LIVERPOOL AND GREAT WESTERN STEAM COMPANY v. PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY
Term: 1888
Important Dates
Argued: November 8, 1887
Decided: March 5, 1889
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller

LIVERPOOL AND GREAT WESTERN STEAM COMPANY v. PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 5, 1889. The case was argued before the court on November 8, 1887.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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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: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 129 U.S. 397
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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.

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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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