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REDFIELD, EXECUTRIX, v. YSTALYFERA IRON COMPANY (1884)

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REDFIELD, EXECUTRIX, v. YSTALYFERA IRON COMPANY
Term: 1883
Important Dates
Decided: January 21, 1884
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

REDFIELD, EXECUTRIX, v. YSTALYFERA IRON COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 21, 1884.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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: Federal Taxation - Federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
  • Petitioner: Customs Service or Commissioner of Customs
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Professional organization, business, or person
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 110 U.S. 174
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Matthews

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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