EDWARD LIVINGSTON'S EXECUTRIX, APPELLANT v. BENJAMIN STORY (1837)

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EDWARD LIVINGSTON'S EXECUTRIX, APPELLANT v. BENJAMIN STORY
Term: 1837
Important Dates
Argued: February 6, 1837
Decided: February 16, 1837
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-1
Majority
Philip Pendelton Barbour • John McLean • Joseph Story • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
Henry Baldwin

EDWARD LIVINGSTON'S EXECUTRIX, APPELLANT v. BENJAMIN STORY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 16, 1837. The case was argued before the court on February 6, 1837.

In a 5-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 36 U.S. 351
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: James Moore Wayne

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 unspecifiable.

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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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