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TOXAWAY HOTEL COMPANY v. SMATHERS & CO. (1910)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
TOXAWAY HOTEL COMPANY v. SMATHERS & CO.
Term: 1909
Important Dates
Decided: February 21, 1910
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

TOXAWAY HOTEL COMPANY v. SMATHERS & CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 21, 1910.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the North Carolina Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Bankruptcy (except in the context of priority of federal fiscal claims)
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 216 U.S. 439
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: Horace Harmon Lurton

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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