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Executors And Administrators -- Quasi-Contract Liability Of Decedent's Estate -- Administrative Expenses As A Prior Charge On The Estate, Ralph Winkler
Michigan Law Review
After the supply of feed for the decedent's livestock had been depleted and before the appointment of an administrator, the plaintiff furnished some grain at the request of the decedent's daughter and son-in-law, no other parties attempting to assist in any way. It was understood that the plaintiff would look to the estate for payment. In an action of contract against the administrator in his representative capacity for the value of the grain the court held that the plaintiff had a valid claim in quasi-contract against the estate, basing the decision upon "broad considerations of policy." Since the estate was …
Trusts -Tracing Principles Applicable Where Funds Of Two Or More Cestuis Are Wrongfully Commingled, Michigan Law Review
Trusts -Tracing Principles Applicable Where Funds Of Two Or More Cestuis Are Wrongfully Commingled, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Public funds of a school district, of the village of Vassar, and of ten other municipalities were deposited in defendant bank without securing the deposit bond required by statute. After defendant bank had been declared insolvent, the school district intervened and sought to have the amount of its deposit impressed upon the cash assets of the bank as a trust, on the ground that the bank became a trustee ex maleficio. The total of the illegal deposits was greater than the cash on hand and the credits established in solvent correspondent banks at the time the receiver took over the …