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Michigan Law Review
Bankruptcy - Jurisdiction of the District Court Exclusive Within Its District - A trustee in bankruptcy appointed, by the District 'Court for the District of Illinois filed a petition in the District Court for the Western District of Michigan for a summary order to require the respondent to surrender to the trustee certain moneys claimed as the property of the bankrupt. The respondent was a resident of the Eastern District of Michigan, and denied the jurisdiction of the court to issue an order to be enforced in another district. Held that the jurisdiction of the District Courts, in all bankruptcy …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Adverse Possession--Actual Possession--Occupation of Part; Banks and Banking--Payment of Deposits on Forged Checks--Liability--Affirmative Defense; Banks and Banking--Payment of Check--Forged Indorsements; Cancellation of Instrument for Want of Consideration--Stauts Quo; Charities--Charitable Gift--Validity; Commerce--Interstate Commerce--Continuous Shipment--Violation of Elkins Act; Constitutional Law--Power of Judicial Department--Infringement on Executive; Conversion--Return of Goods as Defense; Conveyancing--Grantee's Name Left Blank; Courts--State Courts--Jurisdiction over National Banks; Criminal Law--Harmless Error in Admission of Evidence; Equity--Subrogation of Mortgagor to Rights of Mortgagee; Evidence--Admissibility of Statements in Corroboration of Testimony of Discredited Witness; Evidence--Other Offenses as Evidence of Offense Charged; Fixtures--Between Vendor of Chattel and Mortgagee of Land; Husband and Wife--Action Against …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Accident Insurance--Accident or Disease; Antenuptial Contract; Waiver of Performance; Bankruptcy--Arrest of Bankrupt--Exemption from Arrest; Bankruptcy--Effect upon a Surety of Bankrupt's Discharge; Charities--Validity--Certainty as to Purpose of the Gift; Constitutional Law--Equal Protectin of the Laws--Abrogation of Fellow-Servant Rule; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Laws--Permit to Woman Pharmacist to Sell Liquors; Constracts--Public Policy; Corporations--Injury to Minority Stockholders--Remedy by Injunction; Corporations--Nature of a Corporation--Franchises; Deeds--Specific Performance of a Condition Subsequent; Elections--Primary Elections--Failure of Nominee to File Expense Account; Evidence--Parol Testimony--Admissibility; Husband and Wife--Personal Torts Between; Husband and Wife--Subrogation of Wife to Rights of Creditors for Necessaries; Inn-Keepers--Liability for Goods of Guest--Termination of Liability; …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigal Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigal Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Appeal and Error--Attorney's Interest in Case on Appeal--Contingent Fee; Bankruptcy--discharge--subsequent Action for Fraud; Bills and Notes--Usury No Defense Against a bona Fide Holder--Construction of Negotiable Instruments Statute; Boundaries--Street, Terminus A Quo; Carriers--Hepbern Act--State and Federal Courts--Phrase "Caused by It"; Chattel Mortgages--Payment without Notice of Assignment--Construction of a Mortgage Provision; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of Laws--Statute Requiring Screens on Cars Operated by Corporations; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Laws--Class Legislation; Contracts--No Recovery Under an Entire Illegal Contract; Contracts--Validity of Contract in Contemplation of Divorce; Courts--Federal Courts--authority of Decision of State Courts--"Telegraph"; Covenants--Breach of that Against Incumbrances; Elections--Ballots--Indication of Choice by Voter; Evidence--Facts …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Actions--Moot Questions Not Decided; Automobiles--Dangerous Machines--Liability of Owners for Misuse; Bankruptcy--Debts Discharged--Fraud--Election of Remedies; Bankruptcy--Jurisdiction of Court--Property in Other Districts; Bills and Notes--fictitious or Non-Existing Indorsee--Knowledge of Indorser; Bills and Notes--Notice of Dishonor--Effect of Constructive Waiver; Carriers--Injuries to Passengers--Riding on Platform--Question for Jury; Chattel Mortgages--Bill of Sale and a Lease Constituting a Mortgage--Question of Law; Constitutional Law--employer's Liability Act--Right to Sue in State Court; constitutional Law--Police Power--Trade Marks--Reuse of Original Packages; Deeds--Date--Presumption as to Time of Delivery; Deeds--Effect of an Assignment Indorsed Thereon; Divorce--Allowance of Temporary Alimony; Elections--Use of voting Machines--Unconstitutional; Evidence--Judicial Notice that Voltaire's Works are not Immoral or …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Bankruptcy--Discharge of Bankrupt From Arrest--Claims--Judgment--Willful and Malicious Injury; Bills and Notes--anomalous Indorser; Bills and Notes--Innocent Holder of Note Given on the Sale of "Futures"; Constitutional Law--Imprisonment for Debt; Elections--Constitutionality of "Terrell Election Law"; Eminent Domain--Accretions--Extending Highway--Compensation; Guaranty--Consideration--Past and Future Advances; Intoxicating Liquors--Right to Withdraw Names from Local Option Petition; Intoxicating Liquors--Sale of Malt Tonic; Landlord and Tenant--Change in Law Preventing Use of Part of Premises--Abatement of Rent; License--Parol Permission to Use Lands--Revocation of, After Expenditures by Licensee; Mandamus--Nature of the Remedy; Master and Servant--Injuries to Third Persons; Master and Servant--Injuries to Third Persons--Dual Relation--Proximate Cause; Monopolies--Right to Recover on Monopolistic …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Arson--Persons Liable--Husband or Wife; Bankruptcy--Exemptions--Homesteads; Carriers--Bill of Lading--Estoppel to Deny Receipt of Goods; Commerce--Carriers--State Regulation--Congressional Inaction; Constitutional Law--Interstate Commerce--Compelling Carrier to Share Facilities with Rival--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Right to Engage in the Business of an Undertaker; Counties--Railway Aid Bonds--Conditions Precedent; Covenants--Power of Court of Equity to Compel Release of, as Cloud on Title; Divorce--alimony--Divorce Granted Against Wife; Eminent Domain--Appropriation of Property--Street Railway Addition Burden; Evidence--Admissibility of Confessions; Evidence--Hearsay Declarations of Pedigree; Execution--Sale--Inadequacy of Price--Setting Aside; Insurance--Exception in Fire Insurance Policy--"Cotton in Open Cars"; Insurance--Right to Sue on Indemnity Policy--Payment of Loss by Receiver's Note; Intoxicating Liquors--Illegal Sale--Ordinance--Validity; Intoxicating …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Bankruptcy--Jurisdiction--Appointment of Referee; Carriers--Liability for Baggage--Proximate Cause; Constitutional Law--Impairing Obligation of Contract; Constitutional Law--Police Power--Regulation of Liquor Traffic; Contract of Sale--Written Contract--Alteration by Parol; Corporations--Existence Apart from Stockholders--Corporation Composed of Negroes Not a "Colored" Person; Corporations--Transfer of Shares--Bona Fide Purchasers--Estoppel; Damages--Measure for Wrongful Levy and Detention; Deeds--Distinguished from Wills--Power of Disposition Reserved; Deeds--Reservation of Right of Action for Damages--Liability of Subsequent Vendee; Descent and Distribution--Murderer's Right to Take His Statutory Share of His Victim's Estate; Divorce--Abandonment--Insanity of Deserting Spouse; Easements--Construction--Automobiles as Carriages; Elections--Irregularities in Ballots; Evidence--Admissions of a Trustee Against the Cestui Que Trust; Evidence--Judicial Notice of Foreign Law; Homestead--Mortgage …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Attachment--Property Subject to--Goods Conditionally Sold; Bankruptcy--Receiver and Manager--Insufficient Estate--Priorities; Bankruptcy--Solicitor and Client--Account Stated Bankruptcy of Client--Trustee's Right to Go Behind Stated Account, and Require Details; Banks and Banking--Receivers in Proceedings for Dissolution--Sufficiency of Bill; Bills and Notes--Foreign Bill of Exchange--Failure to Protest; Constitutional law--Equal Protection of the Law--Regulation of Common Carrier; Contracts--Mutuality of Obligation; Corporations--Agreement to Take Shares of Stock; Damages--Mental Suffering--Wanton Wrong; Deeds--Date--Presumption as to Time of Delivery; Deeds--Description--Statement of Quantity Controlling; Elections--Certificates of Nomination--Time of Filing--Accident and Mistake Causing Delay; Evidence--Admissibility of Conversation by Telephone; Evidence--Proof of Value--An Exception to the Hearsay Rule; Husband and Wife--Estate by Entirety--application …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Acknowledgement--Impeachment--Examination of Married Woman; Bankruptcy--Discharge--Libel; Bankruptcy--Selection of Trustee--Right of Creditors to Elect; Bills and Notes--Genuine Draft with Forged Bill of Lading; Bills and Notes--Release of Indorsers; Carriers--Refulsal to Give Transer--Passenger's Motive in Requesting; Covenants--covenant Against Incumbrances--Runs with the Land; Deeds--Parties--One Not Names as Grantor Signing; Elections--Corrupt Practices Act--who is a Candidate; elections--voting Machines--Statute Unconstitutional; Eminent Domain--Taking of railroad Right of Way for Street Purposes--Measure of Damages; Equity--maxims--application in Suit for Divorce on Statutory Grounds; Evidence--Opinion as to One's Physical Condition--Expert Testimony; Foreign Corporations--Right to do business in State can Become Vested; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on--What Constitutes "Doing Business"; Foreign …
Note And Comment, James H. Brewster, Frank L. Sage, Harry B. Hutchins, Frank L. Sage, Henry M. Bates, Henry M. Bates
Note And Comment, James H. Brewster, Frank L. Sage, Harry B. Hutchins, Frank L. Sage, Henry M. Bates, Henry M. Bates
Michigan Law Review
A Spurious Law Course; Railroad Taxation in Michigan and Wisconsin; Surgical Operation on Minor Without Consent of Parent; The Power of Municipal Corporations to Grant Exclusive Privileges; Inheritance Taxes and the Right to Transfer and Inherit Property; The Sovereign Power of a State to Prevent Election Frauds; Original Jurisdiction of Supreme Court in Election Cases;
Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Harry B. Hutchins, Ralph E. Jenney, Charles L. Dribble, Charles H. L'Hommedieu
Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Harry B. Hutchins, Ralph E. Jenney, Charles L. Dribble, Charles H. L'Hommedieu
Michigan Law Review
Internal Revenue Tax on State Dispensaries Upheld; What is the Practice of Medicine?; Appeals from Decrees for Costs; The Hearst Election Contest; The Lapse of a Legacy to a Deceased Child; Unsightly Advertisements and Billboards
Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Henry M. Bates, Charles H. L'Hommedieu, Maurice C. Mcgiffin
Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Henry M. Bates, Charles H. L'Hommedieu, Maurice C. Mcgiffin
Michigan Law Review
Including Breach of Contract--Lumley V. Gye; Vote by machine is a Constitutional Ballot; Administration Upon Estates of Absentees; A Labor Union's Right to Declare and Carry Out a Boycott
Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Henry M. Bates, John R. Rood, John R. Rood, Charles R. Dibble, John R. Rood, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Henry M. Bates, John R. Rood, John R. Rood, Charles R. Dibble, John R. Rood, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
Michigan Law Review
The Law School; Unauthorized Operation by Physician; The Kansas Oil Refinery Bill; Garnishment of Public Corporations; The rule in Wild's Case Today; Effect of a complicated Form of Ballot on the Elector's Freedom of Choice; Situs of Debts for Garnishment; Malicious Interference With the Contract of Employment
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Banks--Equity--Insolvency--Preference of Creditors; Banks--Special or General Deposit; Constitutional law--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Right of Property; Contract--Liability for Breach in Discharge of a Professor; Corporations--Liability of Directors for Excessive Indebtedness; Criminal Law--Larceny Distinguished from False Pretenses; Criminal Law--Remarks of District Attorney--Appeals to Race Prejudice; Damages--Proper Averment in an Action for Deceit in the Sale of Realty; Easement--Right of Way--Immemorial Custom--Easements Appurtenant; Elections--Constitutionality of Law Changing Date--Holding Over; Evidence--Personal Injury--Physical Examination of Plaintiff; Evidence--Physical Examination of Accused; Evidence--Privileged Communication--County Attorney; Execution--Premature--Collateral Attack; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on Officer; Homestead--Oral Contract for Conveyance--Specific Performance; Husband and Wife--Liability of Husband for the Support …
Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review
Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The Michigan Railroad Tax Cases; Is a vote by Machine a Constitutional Ballot?--Signing "At the End" of a Will; Another Attempt to Evade the Lottery Laws; Saving Exception on Overruling of Motion to Quash Summons; Wills Executed Without Animus Testandi; The Legal Status of a Participant in a Guessing Contest
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Bailments--Care Required of Agistor--Special Contracts; Bankruptcy--Trading Corporations--Hotels; Common Carriers--discrimination--Exclusive Depot Privileges; Conditional Sales--Street Railway Equipment--Rights of Vendor; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Equal Protection of the Amendment of the Federal Constitution and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights; Constitutional Law--Interference with Civil rights--Power of Congress to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment; Contempt of Court--Fraudulent Claims; Contract--Assignment; Contract to Indemnify Against negligence--Statutory Prohibition--Public Policy; Corporations--Sale of corporate Property to Directors--Validity; Damages--Remote; Deeds--Duress--Grantor in Possession; Deeds--Restriction Against Building Tenement House--Deeds--Standing Timber--Construction; Equity--Possession of Personal Property; Evidence--Hypothetical Question; Execution--Exemptions--Life Insurance; Fixtures--Mortgage--Distruction of Property; Foreign Corporations--Service of Summons of Officer of; Highway--Rights of Abutting Owner; Husband and Wife--Contracts--Effects of …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Attachment--Equity Decree in Support of; Bankruptcy--Attachment--Sheriff's Fees; Bankruptcy--title of Trustee--Validity and Preservation of Liens; Bills and Notes--Discharge of Endorser of Check--Waiver; Bills and notes--Indorsement of Payee Forged by Drawer--Recovery by Drawee; Constitutional law--Equal Protection of the Laws--master and Servant--Railroad Fellow Servants' Act; Corporate Stock--Statute Requiring Registration of Transfer--Attachment; Criminal law--Evidence--confidential Communications--Letters from Accused to Wife; Dead body--Action for Mutilation; Deeds--Delivery--Estoppel; Deeds--Fraudulent Conveyance--bona Fide Purchaser from Fraudulent Grantee; Domicil--Election--Residence and Intention; Ejectiment--By Railroad Company for Right of Way; Equity--navigable Waters--Obstruction--Special Injury; Equity--Personal Trespass--Injunction; Foreign Corporations--Failure to Comply with Laws--Effect on Contracts; Judicial Officer--Liability of Inferior Judicial Officer Acting Under a Void …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Attorney--Disbarment--Procedure; Carriers--Injury to Passenger From Strike Sympathizers; Constitutional Law--Reasonable Classification--Regulation of Insurance Companies--Discrimination in Favor of Foreign Corporations; Constitutional law--Use of Trading Stamps--Police Police Power; Contract--Breach--Damages; Corporation--Notes Given in payment for its own Stock--Bankruptcy--Provable Debts; Damages--Measure--Contribution; Deeds--construction--Description of Subject Matter; Easements--Recital in Deed--Injunction; Election--Candidates--Oath--Constitutionality of Primary Law; Equity--Jurisdiction to Restrain Injunction Proceeding Denied; Estates of Decendents--Funeral Expenses of Married Woman--Liability of Surviving Husband; Executor de Son Tort--Right to Equitable Relief; Foreign corporations--doing Business in State--Failure to Comply with State Laws--Validity of Contract; Garnishment--Situs of Debt; Husband and Wife--Separation Agreements--Validity--Defenses; Insurance--Employer's Liability--Notice of Injury; Intoxicating Liquors--License Non-Transferable; Judgments--dormancy--Effect of Special Execution; …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Agency--Husband as Agent of Wife in Transfer of Real Property; Assignment of Insurance Policy--Change of Beneficiary; Banks--Deposits Made by Estate in Trust for Another; Chattel Mortgages--When Void as Against Trustee in Bankruptcy of Mortgagor; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Restrictions upon Building and Loan Associations; Corporations--Foreign, Transacting Business in State--Right of Action--Condition Precedent--Interstate Commerce; Corporations, Insolvent--Preferring Creditors--Directors; Damages--Breach of Contract; Damages--Mental Suffering Unconnected with Physical; Deeds--Delivery to a Third Person--Requisites; Deeds--Signing by One not Named as Grantor; Election Contest--Tie Votes--Effect; Injunction--Special Injury--Street Improvement; Insolvency of Building and Loan Associations--Borrowing Shareholder--Credits; Insurance--Delay in Making Proofs of Death when Blanks were to be Furnished by …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Acknowledgment--Who May Take--Stockholder; Agency--Notice to Agent--Liability of Principal; Carriers--Express Messengers--Contracts Exempting from Liability--Validity--Public Policy; Carriers of Passengers--Elevators--Negligence--Degree of Care; Code Pleading--Allegation of Duty; Conflict of Laws--Wills--Execution of Power; Constitutional Law--Liberty--Police Power--Use of Trading Stamps; Corporations--Legaility of Voting Trust--Power to Revoke Authority; Covenants--Benefits and Burdens--Privity of Estate; Damages--Breach of Contract--Mental Suffering; Damages--Breach of Contract--Mental Suffering; Damages--Pleading--Special Injury--Admissibility of Evidence; Elections--Right of Board of Aldermen to Judge of Election of its own Members--Construction of Charter; Equity--Mortgages--Redemption by Co-Tenant--Improvements--rents and Profits--Executors' and Administrators' Liability for Unpaid Claims; Evidence--Competency--Wife's Testifying Against Husband--Mock Marriage; Insolvency--Partnership--Secured Creditors--Mortgage on Exempt Property--Mortgage on Property of Individual Partner; Insurance--Benefit …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Agency--Authority to Appoint Sub-Agents; Agency--right to Compensation; Bankruptcy--Discharge; Bankruptcy--Discharge; Banks and Banking--Crediting Depositor--Check of Another Depositor; Conflict of Laws--Legitimation of a Bastard--Status Fixed by Domicile of his Parents; Conflict of Laws--Lex Loci Fori--Right of Action in England for Acts in Foreign Country--Territorial Waters; Constitutional Law--Summary Sale of Trespassing Animals; Contract--Public Policy--General Restraint of Trade; Contract--Validity--Release of Employer for Liability to next of Kin for Injury to Employee; Elections--Right of a Party Committee to Question Eligibility of a Candidate; Fraudulent Conveyances--Contingent Fees; Insurance--Condition for Immediate Notice--Excuse; Married Women--Power to Enter into Partnership with Husband--Set off of Debt Due by Partner in …