WASHBURN AND MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY (1900)

WASHBURN AND MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
	Term: 1900
Important Dates
	Argued: March 15, 1899
	Decided: October 15, 1900
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

WASHBURN AND MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 15, 1900. The case was argued before the court on March 15, 1899.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

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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: Manufacturer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 179 U.S. 1
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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 conservative.