MARTHA BRADSTREET, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. ANSON THOMAS (March 12, 1838)

MARTHA BRADSTREET, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. ANSON THOMAS
	Term: 1838
Important Dates
	Argued: February 10, 1838
	Decided: March 12, 1838
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-1
Majority
	Philip Pendelton Barbour • John Catron • John McKinley • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
	Henry Baldwin

MARTHA BRADSTREET, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. ANSON THOMAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 12, 1838. The case was argued before the court on February 10, 1838.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the New York Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: presentation, admissibility, or sufficiency of evidence (not necessarily a criminal case)
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Tenant or lessee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 37 U.S. 174
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: James Moore Wayne

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.