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MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. TISDALE (1876)

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MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. TISDALE
Term: 1875
Important Dates
Decided: January 10, 1876
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. TISDALE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 10, 1876.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Iowa U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Iowa.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Evidence
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 91 U.S. 238
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Ward Hunt

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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