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AETNA INSURANCE CO. v. UNITED FRUIT CO. (1938)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
AETNA INSURANCE CO. v. UNITED FRUIT CO.
Term: 1937
Important Dates
Argued: April 25, 1938
Decided: May 23, 1938
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

AETNA INSURANCE CO. v. UNITED FRUIT CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 23, 1938. The case was argued before the court on April 25, 1938.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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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: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 304 U.S. 430
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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.

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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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