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Evidence -- Competency Of Wife To Testify Against Husband--Rules Of Evidence In Federal Court, Philip A. Hart Dec 1936

Evidence -- Competency Of Wife To Testify Against Husband--Rules Of Evidence In Federal Court, Philip A. Hart

Michigan Law Review

The defendant was convicted of transporting a female in interstate commerce for immoral purposes. Over the defendant's objection the trial court permitted testimony against him to be given by the defendant's wife. This ruling he assigned as error but held a wife is competent as a witness against her husband. Yoder v. United States, (C. C. A. 10th, 1935) 80 F. (2d) 665.


Trusts - Restraints On Alienation - Ability Of A Divorced Wife To Reach The Corpus Of A Spendthrift Trust For Alimony Claim Jun 1936

Trusts - Restraints On Alienation - Ability Of A Divorced Wife To Reach The Corpus Of A Spendthrift Trust For Alimony Claim

Michigan Law Review

Testator placed the residue of his estate in trust, and, after making provision as to one-third of the principal and income for his widow, left the remaining two-thirds to his children, or their children by right of representation, the net annual income to be paid to them in convenient installments for twenty years after his death, the principal share of each to be transferred in four as nearly equal installments as possible at five-year intervals. By a codicil, executed after plaintiff, the wife of one of testator's sons, had announced her intention of securing a divorce, it was provided that …


Attack On Decrees Of Divorce, Albert C. Jacobs May 1936

Attack On Decrees Of Divorce, Albert C. Jacobs

Michigan Law Review

Hitherto we have been concerned with the extent to which a decree is impeachable at the suit of one of the so-called "contestants" to the divorce litigation. But other parties, second spouses, children, personal representatives, grantees of a divorced party, and other third persons, may be affected; they may desire to question its efficacy. Are they controlled by the same principles of attack which govern the divorce litigants? Do these third persons all stand in the same position when they seek to assail the decree?


Attack On Decrees Of Divorce, Albert C. Jacobs Apr 1936

Attack On Decrees Of Divorce, Albert C. Jacobs

Michigan Law Review

This paper deals with attacks on decrees of divorce. The attack may arise in the state of the divorce or elsewhere. F-1 is used to designate the state in which the divorce was granted; F-2 a state other than that in which the decree in' question was rendered. The attack in F-1 may be on purely local or non-jurisdictional grounds, such as fraud, collusion, duress or perjury, or upon the ground that the proper jurisdictional requirements were lacking. The attack in F-2 will generally be on jurisdictional grounds, though in certain situations a decree has been impeached for non-jurisdictional factors. …


Evidence-Alienation Of Affections-Wife's Testimony As To Statements Made To Her By Alienated Husband Concerning Defendant Apr 1936

Evidence-Alienation Of Affections-Wife's Testimony As To Statements Made To Her By Alienated Husband Concerning Defendant

Michigan Law Review

In a suit for alienation of husband's affections, plaintiff testified as to certain statements made by her husband in the absence of the defendant. These statement purported to be repetitions of statements made by the defendant to plaintiff's husband. Defendant objected to the admission of this testimony on the ground that it was hearsay. The court held that the testimony was admissible, not to prove the truth of the facts, words, or conduct embodied in the statements and chargeable to the defendant, but to show the husband's state of mind toward the plaintiff. Richards v. Lorleberg, (App. D. C. …


Evidence-Privilege-Husband And Wife-Attorney And Client Jan 1936

Evidence-Privilege-Husband And Wife-Attorney And Client

Michigan Law Review

A husband and wife are involved in marital difficulties. Together they consult an attorney in an effort to compromise their dispute, or failing in that, to arrange a property settlement prior to separation or divorce. Such a joint consultation may be for any one of a variety of purposes. In a later action, for divorce or separate maintenance for example, the question arises whether either the attorney or one of the spouses can disclose words spoken by the other spouse in the consultation. For instance, can the attorney or the husband disclose the wife's admission of adultery?


Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Taxation To Settlor Of Income From Trust Established To Discharge A Legal Obligation Jan 1936

Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Taxation To Settlor Of Income From Trust Established To Discharge A Legal Obligation

Michigan Law Review

Shortly before the entering of a decree of absolute divorce in favor of his wife, a husband agreed to transfer securities in trust for the wife's benefit in lieu of alimony and all other claims. The divorce decree incorporated the trust agreement. On certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, which had sustained a tax against the settlor on the income of the trust estate on the ground that it discharged a legal obligation, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the judgment. After disposing of the argument that the trust was entirely voluntary since …


Subrogation-Rights Of Ward In Security For Debt Of Guardian Discharged By Diverted Fund Jan 1936

Subrogation-Rights Of Ward In Security For Debt Of Guardian Discharged By Diverted Fund

Michigan Law Review

S, guardian for some minor children, used $ 1200 of their money without order of court for the discharge of a mortgage on land belonging equally to himself and the wards. Plaintiff, obtaining a judgment against S, levied on his apparent half-interest in the land and purchased it at the execution sale for the balance due on the judgment. In partition proceedings the wards set up the unauthorized use of their money and claimed a lien for $600 on plaintiff's interest. Held, since the plaintiff gave no consideration except the satisfaction of an antecedent debt, it is …