Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

University of Michigan Law School

1934

Preferred creditors

Articles 1 - 4 of 4

Full-Text Articles in Law

Effect Of Insolvency Proceedings On Creditor's Right To Interest, Fred T. Hanson Jun 1934

Effect Of Insolvency Proceedings On Creditor's Right To Interest, Fred T. Hanson

Michigan Law Review

Where the claims of all creditors are of the same class and. assets are insufficient to pay in full the amount due on all claims when insolvency proceedings are begun, the general rule is that interest thereafter accruing will not be included in computing dividends on claims. The reasons usually given for this rule are: (a) The delay in payment is not the act of the debtor but is an act of the law for the mutual benefit of all the creditors. (b) In the case of claims bearing different rates of interest, it would be inequitable to permit the …


Banks And Banking - Bank Collection Code - Preference For Certified Check On Drawee Bank's Insolvency May 1934

Banks And Banking - Bank Collection Code - Preference For Certified Check On Drawee Bank's Insolvency

Michigan Law Review

The petitioner accompanied a bid on construction work with two certified checks drawn on the M Bank and payable to the government. On rejection of the bid the checks were returned, but in the meantime the drawee bank had been closed. The petitioner presented the checks to the receiver of the defunct bank who refused to honor them as preferred claims. An Illinois statute provided that when a bank has presented to it for payment an item drawn upon such bank, and such bank shall fail after having charged such item to the account of the drawer but without having …


Banks And Banking -- Relation Of Bank To Depositor Of Checks Unqualifiedly Indorsed -- Set-Off Against A Failing Correspondent Bank May 1934

Banks And Banking -- Relation Of Bank To Depositor Of Checks Unqualifiedly Indorsed -- Set-Off Against A Failing Correspondent Bank

Michigan Law Review

Checks drawn on the M bank of another city were deposited by the holders in the D bank pursuant to an agreement that "in receiving and handling items for deposit or collection . . . this bank acts only as depositor's collecting agent and assumes no responsibility beyond the exercise of due care. . . . It may decline to honor or pay checks drawn against conditional credits." The checks were unqualifiedly indorsed. The D bank credited each depositor's account and forwarded the checks to M bank which charged the accounts of the drawers and sent its draft to D …


Banks And Banking - Public Moneys As Preferred Claims Mar 1934

Banks And Banking - Public Moneys As Preferred Claims

Michigan Law Review

The State claims a preference in the assets of an insolvent bank on the basis of sovereign prerogative. Held, that the State has no preference now because the prerogative right has been abrogated: first, by the passing of a comprehensive state banking law; and second, by a constitutional provision giving bill holders of insolvent banks preference in payment over all other creditors. Fry, State Treasurer v. Equitable Trust Co., 264 Mich. 165, 249 N. W. 619 (1933). (Potter and McDonald, JJ., dissenting).