ST. LOUIS DRESSED BEEF AND PROVISION COMPANY v. MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY (1906)

ST. LOUIS DRESSED BEEF AND PROVISION COMPANY v. MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY
	Term: 1905
Important Dates
	Argued: March 7, 1906
	Decided: March 19, 1906
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

ST. LOUIS DRESSED BEEF AND PROVISION COMPANY v. MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 19, 1906. The case was argued before the court on March 7, 1906.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Missouri U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Missouri.

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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: 201 U.S. 173
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.