NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON v. GRAND VIEW BUILDING ASSOCIATION (1906)

NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON v. GRAND VIEW BUILDING ASSOCIATION
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: October 18, 1906
	Decided: November 5, 1906
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON v. GRAND VIEW BUILDING ASSOCIATION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 5, 1906. The case was argued before the court on October 18, 1906.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 203 U.S. 106
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.