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Michigan Law Review

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1919

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Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Charles L. Kaufman, Edwin D. Dickinson, Lester S. Hecht, Leon L. Greenbaum Jun 1919

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Charles L. Kaufman, Edwin D. Dickinson, Lester S. Hecht, Leon L. Greenbaum

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Judicial Reform in Michigan - The legislature which has been in regular session this year has enacted a measure enlarging the scope of judicial action in a way likely to add very greatly to the iusefulness of the courts. This law authorizes courts of record to make binding declarations of the rights of parties prior to the commission of a wrongful act


Note And Comment, George L. Canfield, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Orvid B. Tanner May 1919

Note And Comment, George L. Canfield, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Orvid B. Tanner

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Admiralty Rule of "Care and Cure" A Limit of Liability - One of the very ancient doctrines of the general maritime law is that a sailor injured in the service of the ship is entitled to care and cure at the expense of the ship, and to his wages, but nothing more in the nature of damages for negligence of the master or others of the ship's company. In the sixth article of the Rooles d'Oleron, for example, it is said,---"But if by the master's orders and commands any of the ship's company be in the service of the ship, …


Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John B. Waite, Ralph W. Aigler, Joseph H. Drake Apr 1919

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John B. Waite, Ralph W. Aigler, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

Repeals by Implication - Prohibition in Michigan - At the November election of. 1916 the people of the state of Michigan ratified the following amendment to the constitution of that state: "The manufacture, sale, giving away, bartering or furnishing of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spiritous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific or sacramental purposes shall be after April thirty, nineteen hundred eighteen, prohibited in the State forever. The Legislature shall by law provide regulations for the sale of such liquors for medicinal, mechanica, cheinical, scientific and sacramental purposes."


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Following the decision of the United States Supreme Court that the Wilson Act did not affect interstate shipments of liquor until final delivery by the carrier, Rhodes v. Iowa, 170 U. S. 412, (898), Congress passed the Webb-Kenyon Act, 37 Stat. at L. 699 (1913). Meantime, in 1913, 35 Stat. at L. 1136, Sec. 239, it was enacted that it should be a penal offense for any carier or other agent, in connection with the interstate carriage of intoxicating liquors, to collect the purchase price from the consignee, or in any manner act as agent of buyer or seller, except …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bailments - Carriers - Conversion - Trover by Bailee (A Common Carrier) Against a Third Person - On the facts as stated by the court of last resort it is often difficult to discover why any action should ever have been thought of, and impossible to see how the judgment of the trial court should have been in favor of the preposterous claim of the plaintiff. Such seems to be the case of Farmers' Cotton Oil Co. v. Atlanta & St. A. B. Ry. Co. (Ala. I918), 79 So. 387. Plaintiff carrier by mistake delivered cotton seed to defendant company. …