COGGESHALL v. HARTSHORN (1856)

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COGGESHALL v. HARTSHORN
Term: 1856
Important Dates
Decided: December 12, 1856
Outcome
Affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Archibald CampbellJohn CatronBenjamin Robbins CurtisPeter Vivian DanielRobert Cooper GrierJohn McLeanSamuel NelsonRoger Brooke TaneyJames Moore Wayne

COGGESHALL v. HARTSHORN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 12, 1856.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part 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: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 154 U.S. 533
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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