MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. COHEN (1900)

MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. COHEN
	Term: 1900
Important Dates
	Argued: March 14, 1900
	Decided: December 3, 1900
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-1
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Joseph McKenna

MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. COHEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 3, 1900. The case was argued before the court on March 14, 1900.

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 Washington U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Washington.

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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: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 179 U.S. 262
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: David Josiah Brewer

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.