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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Concealment of Property--Bankruptcy Schedules Inadmissible Against Bankrupt on Trial for Concealing Property; Bankruptcy--Jurisdiction--Recovering Excessive Counsel Fees; Bills and Notes--Extension of Time of Payment--Release of Lien of Trust Deed; Carriers--Error in Ticket--Ejection of Passenger; Carriers--Free Pass Within Statutory Prohibition; Constitutional Law--Judgment of Sister State--Full Faith and Credit; Corporations--Promoters--Sales to Corporation; Discovery--Personal In juries--Power of Court to Compel Physical Examination of Plaintiff; Divorce--Defense--Connivance; Elections--Primary Elections--Canvassing of Votes; Eminent Domain--Interest on Award Against the Government; Eminent Domain--"Private Property"--Owner's Remedy--Injunction; Evidence--Burden of Proof--Fraudulent Conveyances; Fire Insurance--Forfeiture of Policies--"Other Insurance"; Insurance--Subrogation--Accident Insurance; Judgment--Conclusiveness of Decision of United States Commissioner on Collateral Attack; Master and Servant--Disobedience …


The Corporation In The Street, Charles C. Dibble Jun 1908

The Corporation In The Street, Charles C. Dibble

Michigan Law Review

The modern street is not a simple roadway, but a complicated three-story structure in the use of which the general public, the city government, the abutting property owner and the licensed corporation are interested. Not often are streets so limited in capacity as the one in Frankfort, Kentucky, which was so narrow that the passage of a railroad train would have all but filled it, a condition which led the court to enjoin the construction of a track, though duly authorized. Generally there is room for all, and the use of the streets has been granted with the greatest liberality. …


The Rights And Remedies On Permitting, Diverting, Increasing And Obstructing The Natural Flow, John R. Rood Apr 1908

The Rights And Remedies On Permitting, Diverting, Increasing And Obstructing The Natural Flow, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

It is evident that no one hard and fast rule could be applied to all cases, either in city or country, "without producing injustice and impolitic results. The needs and conditions in city and country are different. They usually differ widely in different parts of the same city. These considerations have induced the Supreme Court of New Hampshire to adopt the flexible rule, that: "In determining this question all the circumstances of the case would, of course, be considered; and among them the nature and importance of the improvements sought to be made, the extent of the interference with the …