RITTER v. MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK (1898) - Ballotpedia

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RITTER v. MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: December 3, 1897
Decided: January 17, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

RITTER v. MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 17, 1898. The case was argued before the court on December 3, 1897.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

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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: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 169 U.S. 139
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: John Marshall Harlan

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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