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MERCHANTS' COTTON PRESS AND STORAGE COMPANY v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA (1894)

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MERCHANTS' COTTON PRESS AND STORAGE COMPANY v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Decided: January 22, 1894
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras

MERCHANTS' COTTON PRESS AND STORAGE COMPANY v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 22, 1894.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 151 U.S. 368
  • 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: Howell Edmunds Jackson

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.

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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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