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PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANY v. ERIE AND WESTERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY (1886)

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PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANY v. ERIE AND WESTERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY
Term: 1885
Important Dates
Argued: January 19, 1886
Decided: March 1, 1886
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley

PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANY v. ERIE AND WESTERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 1, 1886. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1886.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Wisconsin U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Wisconsin.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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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: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 117 U.S. 312
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Horace Gray

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 liberal.

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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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