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POLK v. MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK

Term: 1907
Important Dates
Argued: November 11, 1907
Decided: December 2, 1907
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

POLK v. MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 2, 1907. The case was argued before the court on November 11, 1907.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 207 U.S. 310
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: William Henry Moody

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.

See also

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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