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University of Michigan Law School

Journal

1936

Nebraska

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Witnesses - Instruction As To Credibility Of Police Officers And Paid Detectives, Theodore R. Vogt Dec 1936

Witnesses - Instruction As To Credibility Of Police Officers And Paid Detectives, Theodore R. Vogt

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was convicted of violating the liquor laws. He complained of the trial court's refusal to instruct the jury that greater care should be used in weighing the evidence of police officers than that of other witnesses. Held, such an instruction was properly refused because the witnesses were regular members of the city police force. McCartney v. State, 129 Neb. 716, 262 N. W. 679 (1935).


Jury-Voir Dire-Actions For Negligence-Asking As To Interest In An Insurance Company, Michigan Law Review Dec 1936

Jury-Voir Dire-Actions For Negligence-Asking As To Interest In An Insurance Company, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

During the trial for injuries received in an automobile collision the plaintiff's attorney asked each prospective juror as to whether or not he owned stock in a named insurance company, or held a policy with it, or was an agent for it, and other questions as to whether or not the interest of an insurance company in the action would affect his decisions in the case. The company was not in fact a party to the action. The defendant assigned as error that such questions caused the jury to believe that the defendant carried insurance against loss from damages such …


Corporations-Liability Of Officers Of Corporate Trustee For Breach Of Trust Jan 1936

Corporations-Liability Of Officers Of Corporate Trustee For Breach Of Trust

Michigan Law Review

Defendants were officers and directors of the Lincoln Trust Company, which was acting as trustee for the holders of certain bonds secured by a mortgage. Among other things, the trust instrument provided that the Trust Company should foreclose whenever a breach of the conditions of the mortgage should occur. The mortgagors defaulted on interest payments, but the Trust Company nevertheless advanced the amount of the interest to the bondholders without notifying them that the mortgagors had defaulted, the concealment being apparently for the purpose of maintaining the market value of the bonds. In an action brought by the successor trustee …