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SEYMOUR v. FREER (1869)

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SEYMOUR v. FREER
Term: 1868
Important Dates
Argued: February 9, 1869
Decided: March 15, 1869
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Nelson

SEYMOUR v. FREER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 15, 1869. The case was argued before the court on February 9, 1869.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • Petitioner: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 75 U.S. 202
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Noah Haynes Swayne

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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