SCHUNK v. MOLINE, MILBURN AND STODDART COMPANY (1893)

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SCHUNK v. MOLINE, MILBURN AND STODDART COMPANY
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Decided: February 6, 1893
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-1
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field

SCHUNK v. MOLINE, MILBURN AND STODDART COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 6, 1893.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Nebraska U.S. Circuit for the District of Nebraska.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
  • 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: 147 U.S. 500
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: David Josiah Brewer

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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