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Primary Elections And The Constitution, Luther Harris Evans Feb 1934

Primary Elections And The Constitution, Luther Harris Evans

Michigan Law Review

Recent attempts in Texas and elsewhere to exclude Negro voters from primary elections reveal the unsettled state of constitutional law in this field. Two struggles of principle, individualism versus police power and States' rights versus nationalism, are outlined in the judicial opinions reviewed below under the following headings: (I) Basis of state power over primaries; (II) Limitations on state power over primaries imposed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments; (III) Basis of state power over primaries for nominating United States Senators and Representatives; and (IV) Basis of national power over primaries for nominating United States Senators and Representatives.


Partnership - Declaration Of Trust - Stipulation Against Personal Liability Feb 1934

Partnership - Declaration Of Trust - Stipulation Against Personal Liability

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, the payee of a note of a Texas unincorporated association, sought to hold the defendant shareholders liable as partners. The articles of association provided for trustees to hold and manage the association property, but reserved powers in the shareholders so the latter could: (I) increase capital stock, (2) annually elect the trustees and annually increase or diminish the number of trustees, (3) repeal or amend any of the articles of association, (4) order trustees to call special meetings, (5) remove trustees and subject them to shareholders' orders at all times, ( 6) transact such business as they might inaugurate …


Bankruptcy - Disposition Of Surplus Assets Jan 1934

Bankruptcy - Disposition Of Surplus Assets

Michigan Law Review

The Virginia Oil & Refining Co., a Delaware corporation with all of its business in Texas, went into bankruptcy in 1923. In 1931 hitherto worthless property became valuable and it appeared that there would be a large surplus after all of the creditors were paid. Various receivers in both the state and federal courts of Delaware and Texas, representing groups claiming to be stockholders of the company (which had forfeited its charter) and others claiming to represent the company, sought control of the assets. The bankruptcy court appointed a receiver, to whom the trustee was to turn over the surplus, …