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Practice And Procedure-Under What Circumstances May Counsel Ask Jurors Regarding Their Interest In Insurance Companies, On Trial Of A Case Against An Insured Defendant, Edwin Boos Dec 1944

Practice And Procedure-Under What Circumstances May Counsel Ask Jurors Regarding Their Interest In Insurance Companies, On Trial Of A Case Against An Insured Defendant, Edwin Boos

Michigan Law Review

From a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a personal injury action, defendant appeals, alleging as error questions repeatedly asked the jurors in their voir dire examination by plaintiff over defendant's objection. Plaintiff examined the jurors as to their connections, if any, with insurance companies in general and with Lloyd's specifically. All questions were answered in the negative. The argument of the defendant is that an affidavit, which had been previously presented to the court and to the plaintiff by the defendant, showing that no person on the jury list was in any way interested in Lloyd's or any …


Abstracts, Mary Jane Plumer Dec 1944

Abstracts, Mary Jane Plumer

Michigan Law Review

The abstracts consist merely of summaries of the facts and holdings of recent cases and are distinguished from the notes by the absence of discussion.


Parties - Whether Action For Money Judgment By Holder Of Unsecured Bonds Constitutes "Class" Suit Binding On All Owners Of That Series Who Did Not Appear, William Houston Oct 1944

Parties - Whether Action For Money Judgment By Holder Of Unsecured Bonds Constitutes "Class" Suit Binding On All Owners Of That Series Who Did Not Appear, William Houston

Michigan Law Review

The Chicago Board of Education had issued a certain series of refunding bonds, and later defaulted on interest coupons, numbered 16, attached to the bonds. Prior to the present suit a suit in equity had been instituted against the board by some of the owners of these bonds, on behalf of themselves and all other owners of bonds in this series, in which they prayed for judgment for the amount of interest due to each owner, together with costs, and attorney's fees. Defendant made a motion, to dismiss that suit on the ground that such action could not be maintained …


Abstracts, Mary Jane Plumer Aug 1944

Abstracts, Mary Jane Plumer

Michigan Law Review

The abstracts consist merely of summaries of the facts and holdings of recent cases and are distinguished from the notes by the absence of discussion.


Civil Justice In Germany, Burke Shartel, Hans Julius Wolff Apr 1944

Civil Justice In Germany, Burke Shartel, Hans Julius Wolff

Michigan Law Review

Our aim in preparing this paper is to develop for American lawyers a picture of the functioning of German civil justice. This aim, as well as the paper itself, is an outgrowth of a series of lectures on the German legal system delivered by the authors as background in the law of military occupation for the Judge Advocate General's School of the United States Army in Ann Arbor. That part of these lectures which concerns the operation of German civil justice seems to us of sufficient intrinsic interest to warrant publication.