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Federal Courts-Forum Non Conveniens-Derivative Suits, Edward S. Tripp S.Ed. Nov 1947

Federal Courts-Forum Non Conveniens-Derivative Suits, Edward S. Tripp S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a resident of New York, and a policyholder in defendant Illinois corporation, brought a suit in the United States District Court in New York to force one of defendant's directors and another corporation to account to defendant for alleged waste of its corporate assets. Defendant moved for dismissal on the grounds that the suit would involve interference with the internal affairs of a foreign corporation, and that. the suit in New York would work great hardship, since the defendant would be required to transport many records and witnesses from Illinois to New York at great expense. The suit was …


Trusts-Creditors' Claims Against The Trust Property-Liability Of Trustees In Representative Capacity, T. E. Norpell Mar 1947

Trusts-Creditors' Claims Against The Trust Property-Liability Of Trustees In Representative Capacity, T. E. Norpell

Michigan Law Review

Suit upon two notes signed by appellees, "Trustees, trading as the Annie Reisch Investment Company, a Common Law Trust of Sangamon County, Illinois." The notes, due in four months after date of execution, were purchased by the plaintiff, appellant, from the payee bank's receiver nine years after their maturity. This action was begun by complaint and cognovit and judgment was entered against the makers individually and as trustees. The individual defendants filed motions to open judgment against them individually; and upon motion for a summary judgment filed by defendants, held, by section 20 of the Negotiable Instruments Law, defendant …


Constitutional Law-State Apportionment For Congressional Elections-Justiciability Of Issue, L. B. Brody S.Ed. Jan 1947

Constitutional Law-State Apportionment For Congressional Elections-Justiciability Of Issue, L. B. Brody S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioners, three qualified Illinois voters, filed a proceeding in a United States district court composed of three judges, seeking a determination under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act that the 1901 State Apportionment Act of Illinois was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and Article I of the Constitution, in that it denied to citizens of the United States the equal and unabridged right to vote for Congressmen. On direct appeal to the Supreme Court of a dismissal of the petition by the lower court, the complaint alleged that the statute apportioning the State of Illinois was void in that it …