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PUTNAM v. DAY (1875)

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PUTNAM v. DAY
Term: 1874
Important Dates
Argued: January 22, 1875
Decided: February 15, 1875
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne
Dissenting
David Davis

PUTNAM v. DAY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 15, 1875. The case was argued before the court on January 22, 1875.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Indiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Indiana.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Civil procedure
  • Petitioner: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 89 U.S. 60
  • 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: 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.

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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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