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SAMUEL B. LEE, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. NATHANIEL DICK AND OTHERS (1836)

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SAMUEL B. LEE, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. NATHANIEL DICK AND OTHERS
Term: 1836
Important Dates
Decided: February 26, 1836
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • John McLean • Joseph Story • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne

SAMUEL B. LEE, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. NATHANIEL DICK AND OTHERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 26, 1836.

In a 5-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Tennessee.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1830s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: Person who guarantees another's obligations
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 35 U.S. 482
  • 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: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Smith Thompson

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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