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UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY v. SANDOVAL (1912)

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UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY v. SANDOVAL
Term: 1911
Important Dates
Decided: February 19, 1912
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY v. SANDOVAL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 19, 1912.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arizona Territorial Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 223 U.S. 227
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph McKenna

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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