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REED v. INSURANCE COMPANY

Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: October 18, 1877
Decided: October 29, 1877
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

REED v. INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 29, 1877. The case was argued before the court on October 18, 1877.

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

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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: 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: 95 U.S. 23
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 conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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