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MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. PHINNEY

Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: January 22, 1900
Decided: May 28, 1900
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. PHINNEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 28, 1900. The case was argued before the court on January 22, 1900.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 178 U.S. 327
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 unspecifiable.

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External links

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Footnotes

↑ 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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