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Quasi Contracts-Liability Of Landowner For Repairs Furnished Without Request
Quasi Contracts-Liability Of Landowner For Repairs Furnished Without Request
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff furnished labor and materials for repairs to a farm house owned by defendant. The work was done without the knowledge of defendant at the request of defendant's brother who was occupying the place at the time and who had formerly been the owner. Plaintiff sued to foreclose a materialman's lien, but the lien was disallowed because not filed in time. It was held, nevertheless, that even though plaintiff was unable to prove either a contract with defendant or an agency relationship between defendant and his brother, plaintiff could still recover the reasonable value of the benefits furnished to …
Evidence -Admissibility Of Statements Of Fact Made During Negotiation For Compromise, John E. Tracy
Evidence -Admissibility Of Statements Of Fact Made During Negotiation For Compromise, John E. Tracy
Michigan Law Review
At present, the various jurisdictions hold with comparative uniformity that while offers to settle a dispute are not admissible in evidence, statements of independent fact made during such compromise negotiation are admissible. The routes of logic by which the courts arrive at this similarity in result are marked by some fundamental differences, as will be shown later, but the result is the same under any theory. The question therefore presents itself, whether the distinction made by the courts between the admissibility of offers to compromise and statements of fact made during compromise negotiations can be justified under a system of …
Constitutional Law-National Power Over Navigable Streams - Property Clause - Corporations - Stockholders' Suit
Michigan Law Review
The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the TVA case raises issues of extreme importance not only in regard to the interpretation of the property clause of the federal Constitution, but also in regard to the requisites for a suit by minority stockholders of a corporation questioning the actions of the corporate management.