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Municipal Corporations - Official Misconduct As Ground For Removal Of Officer, Leonard D. Verdier Jr.
Municipal Corporations - Official Misconduct As Ground For Removal Of Officer, Leonard D. Verdier Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a member of the council of the city of Highland Park, Michigan, was removed by the council, as provided in the charter because of membership in the Black Legion. The Black Legion was a secret society founded on principles of racial, religious, and political discrimination. Its members took an oath to further these purposes by any means ordered by the officers of the organization, including violence and terrorism. Members were forbidden to expose the organization under penalty of death, and membership was supposedly permanent. The council found that membership in such a society rendered Wilson incompetent to perform the …
Injunctions - Courts - Labor Law - Power Of A State Court To Enjoin National Labor Relations Board Officials, Amos J. Coffman
Injunctions - Courts - Labor Law - Power Of A State Court To Enjoin National Labor Relations Board Officials, Amos J. Coffman
Michigan Law Review
The Circuit Court of Washtenaw County, Michigan, recently issued an injunction enjoining the regional officials of the National Labor Relations Board from holding a scheduled hearing in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The injunction was issued on the theory that if any unfair labor practices were being practiced by the Ann Arbor Press (a local job printer charged with violating the act) they did not affect interstate commerce and hence were not within the jurisdiction of the board. The injunction was at least temporarily effective. The hearing was not held in Ann Arbor. The regional office of the board in Detroit withdrew …
Corporations - Liability Of Stockholders Of Bank Stock Holding Company For Statutory Assessment On Bank Stock., Edward J. Wendrow
Corporations - Liability Of Stockholders Of Bank Stock Holding Company For Statutory Assessment On Bank Stock., Edward J. Wendrow
Michigan Law Review
The late depression with its attendant bank failures and the consequent assessment of shareholders has resulted in bringing before the courts a question that has never been litigated until comparatively recent times. That is, can the shareholders of a holding company, whose assets consist of stock of the closed bank, be subjected to the statutory assessment when the corporation itself is unable to meet the assessment? The case of Nettles v. Rhett is the latest of this series, and is fairly typical of the issues involved. This case concerned a suit by the receiver of the Peoples State Bank of …
Bills And Notes - Qualified Indorsement - By Assignment Of "Right, Title And Interest'', Michigan Law Review
Bills And Notes - Qualified Indorsement - By Assignment Of "Right, Title And Interest'', Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, payee of a promissory note, transferred it by writing on the back, "For value received, I hereby assign all my rights, title and interest to the within note .... " Held, defendant's indorsement was qualified, and she was not liable for its payment. Fecko v. Tarczynski,. 281 Mich. 590,275 N. W. 502 (1937).
Torts - Prenatal Injuries To Infants, Frank B. Stone
Torts - Prenatal Injuries To Infants, Frank B. Stone
Michigan Law Review
This was an action by the administrator under the survival act. Decedent's mother while a passenger on the defendant's street-car was injured through negligence of an employee. Decedent thus suffered prenatal injuries to his skull from which he died three months after birth. The birth occurred 22 days after the accident and after a normal period of gestation. Held, there is no liability to an infant for prenatal injuries and therefore no cause of action existed in the child or survives to the administrator. Newman v. City of Detroit, 281 Mich. 60, 274 N. W. 710 (1937).