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Property Law and Real Estate

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1941

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Torts - Effect Of Attractive Nuisance Doctrine On Municipal Liability To Children On The Streets, Donald H. Treadwell Dec 1941

Torts - Effect Of Attractive Nuisance Doctrine On Municipal Liability To Children On The Streets, Donald H. Treadwell

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, an eight year old girl, stopped on the way home with a playmate to play around a newspaper stand located on the edge of the sidewalk. The stand was maintained by a vendor who was licensed by the city. While the plaintiff was standing beside the stand, her playmate swung from the top, causing it to topple over on the plaintiff and gash her forehead. Despite medical care infection set in and a disfiguring scar resulted. There was evidence that the stand had fallen over previously for various reasons. Held, that the defendant city was negligent in not …


Banks And Banking -Trusts - Right Of Bank To Sell Participating Trust Certificates In Self-Owned Property, Michigan Law Review Jan 1941

Banks And Banking -Trusts - Right Of Bank To Sell Participating Trust Certificates In Self-Owned Property, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

In 1923 the trust company entered into a transaction with the land company by which the land company borrowed $130,000 with which it purchased a city property for slightly less than that amount and gave title to the trust company as security for the loan. Through a series of loans later negotiated the trust company came to have an investment of $150,000 in the property. In 1926 the trust company made an agreement with the land company pursuant to which the trust company declared itself trustee of the property at an appraised value almost fifty per cent above the purchase …