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Negligence - Escalator Not An Attractive Nuisance, Michigan Law Review
Negligence - Escalator Not An Attractive Nuisance, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a four-year-old child, accompanied his mother into defendant's department store. Having wandered over to a nearby escalator, he inserted his hand into the aperture where the steps go under the floor, and suffered the loss of two fingers for which injury this action was brought. Held, defendant's motion to dismiss the action was properly granted below, since an escalator, being an ordinary, common instrumentality constructed for ordinary and common use, is not an attractive nuisance. Kataoka v. May Department Stores Co., (D. C. Cal. 1939) 28 F. Supp. 3.
Constitutional Law - Special Assessments - Property Owner's Right To Hearing Under Due Process Clause - Legislative Determination Of Benefits, Richard S. Brawerman
Constitutional Law - Special Assessments - Property Owner's Right To Hearing Under Due Process Clause - Legislative Determination Of Benefits, Richard S. Brawerman
Michigan Law Review
The California legislature created the Los Angeles Flood Control District, empowered a board of supervisors to construct improvements and acquire property necessary or useful for carrying out the purposes of the act, and provided for the organization of drainage districts within the flood control district. An amendatory act provided that the board of supervisors might accept a transfer of "all, but not less than all," improvements of defined classes lying within the flood control district, whereupon the district should become liable for principal and interest of bonds afterward maturing which had been issued by any drainage district to cover the …