NEW ORLEANS v. GAINES'S ADMINISTRATOR. (1891)

NEW ORLEANS v. GAINES'S ADMINISTRATOR.
	Term: 1890
Important Dates
	Argued: January 15, 1891
	Decided: March 2, 1891
Outcome
	Affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part and remanded
Vote
	7-1
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer

NEW ORLEANS v. GAINES'S ADMINISTRATOR. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1891. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1891.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Civil procedure
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Louisiana
Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 138 U.S. 595
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Joseph Bradley

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.