Your monthly support provides voters the knowledge they need to make confident decisions at the polls. Donate today.

THOMAS TOWNSEND, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. ROBERT JEMISON (1849)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
THOMAS TOWNSEND, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. ROBERT JEMISON
Term: 1849
Important Dates
Decided: March 13, 1849
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Robert Cooper Grier • John McKinley • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • James Moore Wayne • Levi Woodbury
Concurring
John Catron • Roger Brooke Taney
Dissenting
Peter Vivian Daniel

THOMAS TOWNSEND, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. ROBERT JEMISON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 13, 1849.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Mississippi Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1840s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Civil procedure
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person who guarantees another's obligations
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 48 U.S. 706
  • 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: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Levi Woodbury

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.

See also

External links

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=THOMAS_TOWNSEND,_PLAINTIFF_IN_ERROR,_v._ROBERT_JEMISON_(1849)&oldid=9508012"