WILLIAM STAIRS AND ANOTHER, PLAINTIFFS, v. CHARLES H. PEASLEE (1856)

WILLIAM STAIRS AND ANOTHER, PLAINTIFFS, v. CHARLES H. PEASLEE
	Term: 1855
Important Dates
	Argued: February 14, 1856
	Decided: May 12, 1856
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	John Archibald Campbell • John Catron • Benjamin Robbins Curtis • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

WILLIAM STAIRS AND ANOTHER, PLAINTIFFS, v. CHARLES H. PEASLEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 12, 1856. The case was argued before the court on February 14, 1856.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Federal Taxation - Federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Massachusetts
Citation: 59 U.S. 521
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Roger Brooke Taney

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.