MCMASTER v. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (1901)

MCMASTER v. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
	Term: 1901
Important Dates
	Argued: March 18, 1901
	Decided: October 28, 1901
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-0
Judgment of the court
	Melville Weston Fuller
Majority
	Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

MCMASTER v. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 28, 1901. The case was argued before the court on March 18, 1901.

In an 8-0 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 Iowa U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Iowa.

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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: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 183 U.S. 25
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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 conservative.