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International Law - Recognition Of Soviet Russia - Extraterritorial Effect Of Decrees Of Confiscation And Nationalization Nov 1936

International Law - Recognition Of Soviet Russia - Extraterritorial Effect Of Decrees Of Confiscation And Nationalization

Michigan Law Review

The Moscow Fire Insurance Company, the Northern Insurance Company of Moscow, and the First Russian Insurance Company were incorporated in Russia under the Czarist regime, and given authority to do business in New York. Deposits were made in New York for the benefit of policy holders and creditors in this country. Subsequent to the revolution in Russia and the Soviet decrees nationalizing all Russian corporations and confiscating without compensation such corporations' assets in Russia and abroad, these deposits were turned over to the New York State Insurance Commissioner for liquidation. Large sums remained after domestic claims were satisfied and the …


Municipal Corporations - Liability To Riparian Owners For Pollution Of Stream Nov 1936

Municipal Corporations - Liability To Riparian Owners For Pollution Of Stream

Michigan Law Review

A stream into which the plaintiff in error dumped its sewage flowed through the lands of defendant in error. Odors from the stream, deposits of foreign substances on the banks, and the pollution of the waters about the farm of the defendant in error constituted a nuisance. Held, the city is liable to one suffering from the nuisance, irrespective of whether it is exercising a governmental function in the installation of the sewer system. Oklahoma City v. Tyetenicz, 175 Okla. 228, 52 P. (2d) 849 (1935).


Quasi-Contract As An Alternative Remedy For Inducing Breach Of Tort Nov 1936

Quasi-Contract As An Alternative Remedy For Inducing Breach Of Tort

Michigan Law Review

In an action for money had and received, plaintiff alleged that the International Railroad Company owed plaintiff $40,000 as compensation for services rendered under an existing and valid contract of employment; that with knowledge of this fact defendant corporation, representing that it, and not plaintiff, was entitled to this sum, fraudulently conspired with International Railway Company that this sum be paid defendant instead of plaintiff, and that said amount was paid defendant, resulting in unjust enrichment under circumstances in which the law implies a promise on defendant's part to pay said sum to plaintiff. In reversing a judgment sustaining a …


Fees And Expenses In A Corporate Reorganization Under Section 77b, George F. Medill Jan 1936

Fees And Expenses In A Corporate Reorganization Under Section 77b, George F. Medill

Michigan Law Review

A District Court of the United States in a proceeding under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act has substantially all the powers of a court of equity. All that follows may be summarized by saying that allowances of compensation for services and reimbursement for expenses are to be made by the court according to the principles and practices of equity applied to the accomplishment of the purposes of the Section and the object of the proceeding-a fair and equitable plan of reorganization. The Section, so far as it provides for or regulates allowances, is no more than a statutory restatement …