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Corporations-Derivative Suits-Who Is A Shareholder Under Federal Rule 23 (B), Kent Chandler, Jr. Jan 1948

Corporations-Derivative Suits-Who Is A Shareholder Under Federal Rule 23 (B), Kent Chandler, Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff brought suit in a federal district court to enforce the rights of defendant, an Illinois corporation, to monies allegedly embezzled by its president and to certain shares of stock allegedly issued to him illegally. The complaint alleged that plaintiff, a Delaware corporation, "is now and has been at all times hereinafter complained of the owner of 6538 shares of the common stock of . . . defendant herein." Defendant, showing by affidavit that plaintiff had never been a shareholder of record, moved to dismiss the complaint for failure to meet the requirements of federal rule 23 (b). The court …


Community Property-Constitutionality Of The Pennsylvania Community Property Act, Richard J. Archer Jan 1948

Community Property-Constitutionality Of The Pennsylvania Community Property Act, Richard J. Archer

Michigan Law Review

After the effective date of the Pennsylvania Community Property Act the husband used income from his separate property to pay part of an advance installment on a life insurance policy acquired before the act. He afterward assigned the policy to the plaintiff. The insurance company refused to recognize the validity of the assignment without the wife's consent on the basis that the income from separate property became community property so as to give the wife an interest in the policy. The Pennsylvania Community Property Act provided, inter alia, that: (1) the separate property of each spouse shall consist of that …


Commerce Clause State Regulation Of Federal Warehouses Jan 1948

Commerce Clause State Regulation Of Federal Warehouses

Indiana Law Journal

Constitutional Law Note