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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1910

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney and Client--Lien--Settlement Pending Judgment; Bankruptcy--discharge--Liability Absolutely Owing; Bankruptcy--Partnership--Individual Estate of a Partner; Banks and Banking--Checks on Trust Funds--Deposit to Personal Account of Trustee--Liability of Bank; Banks and Banking--Deposit Slip Headed by Mistake in Another's Name--Bankbook Does not Control; Constitutional Law--freedom To Contract--Master and Servant--Regulating Hours of Service; Constitutional Law--Interstate Commerce--solicitation of Orders for Sale of Intoxicating Liquors; Criminal Law--Offenses by Drivers of Automobiles; Damages--Extent of Liability on Replevin Bond; Damages--What may be Considered in Mitigation in Action for Libel; Deeds--Delivery--Grantee's Name Blank; Equity--Injunction to Restrain Cutting of Timber--Policy of State; Federal Procedure--Removal of Causes--Fraudulent Joinder; Gaming--"Bookmaking"--Oral Bets; Garnishment--Set-off of …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1910

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Surety's Rights to Subrogation--Preferred Claim; Bills and Notes--Negotiability--Effect of Words "Not Transferable" Added to Negotiable Note; Bills and Notes--Transfer of Note by Indorsement--What Law Governs the Indorser's Contract; Boundaries--Private Way--Title to Fee--Presumption; Civil Rights--Equal Privileges--Place of Amusement--Advertising Material; Constitutional Law--Inequality--classification--Child Labor; Constitutional Law--Limitations on the Taxing Power--Convict-Made Goods--Equal Protection of Laws; Contracts--Real Estate Brokers--Oral Authorization for Sale of Land--Commissions; Criminal Law--Post Office--Fraudulent Use of Mails; Damages--Measure of, in Case of Wrongful Death; Damages--Mitigation of, in Action for Personal Injuries--Duty to Submit to Medical Operation; Deed of Standing Timber--Time of Removal; Divorce--Extent of Relief--Absolute Divorce; Divorce--Vacation of Decree--Perjured Testimony; Evidence--Offer to …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1910

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Appeal and Error--Meaning of "Person Aggrieved"; Bankruptcy--dower Rights of Bankrupt's Wife; Bankruptcy--Mechanic's Lien--Set Off; Bills and Notes--Usury--when note is Void as to Both Principal and Interest; Boundaries--Meander Line--Riparian Rights; Citizenship--Marriage of Alien Woman to a Citizen--Naturalization; Constitutional law--Constitutionality of Office of Supreme Judge--Construction of State Constitution; Constitutional Law--Full Faith and Credit--Chancery Power to Affect Foreign Property; Constitutional Law--Police Power--License and Registration of Automobiles; Contracts--Restraint of Trade--Limitation as to Time; Damages--Breach of Warranty of Title--Attorney's Fees and Costs; Deeds--Support and Maintenance as Consideration--Condition Subsequent; Evidence--Crimes Affecting Credibility of Witnesses; Evidence--Letters Between Husband and Wife--Not Privileged in Hands of Third Parties; Husband …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigal Law Review Feb 1910

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 Dec 1909

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 Nov 1909

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Trustee's Right to Enforce Stockholder's Statutory Liability; Bills and Notes--Failure of Consideration--When Maker is Estopped From Pleading It; Bills and Notes--Instrument Payable After Death--Whether Valid Obligation or of a Testamentary Character; Carriers--Interstate and Intrastate Commerce; Carriers--Regulations Relative to Shipment of Live Stock; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of Laws--Foreign Corporations--Statute Forfeiting Right to Do Business; Constitutional law--Police Power--Personal Liberty--Photographing Persons Charged With Crime; Contempt--Murder of Prisoner Pending His Appeal; Counties--Action by Taxpayer--Compensation of Attorney; Criminal Law--What Constitutes a Disorderly House; Damages--Allowance of Attorney's Fees--rule in Hadley v. Baxendale Applied; Eminent Domain--Taking or Damaging Property--Noise and Smoke From Operation of Railroad; Equity--Illegal Contract--Duty …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1909

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 Mar 1909

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Assignment for Creditors--Validity of Common Law Assignment Under State Statutes--Assignee May Maintain Replevin; Bills and Notes--Fraud--Ability to Read; Bills and Notes--Signature by Agent or Representative--Personal Liability; Boundaries--Meander Line as Boundary in Government Grants--Mistake in Survey; Carriers--Liability as Carriers of Live Stock; Contracts--Antenuptial Agreements--Performance Prevented by Party; Courts--Supreme Court--Review of Decisions of State Courts; Courts--United States Courts Enjoining Proceedings in State Courts--establishment of Railroad Rates by Commission; Criminal Law--Larceny--Fraudulent Use of Legal Process; Criminal Law--Reception of Verdict--Accused's Right to be Present; Dead Bodies--Power of Court to Order Exhumation to Procure Evidence; Evidence--Burden of Proof; Evidence--compelling Accused to Criminate Himself--Waiver of Privilege; …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1909

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adjoining Landowners--Excavations--"Contiguous" Structures; Aliens--Naturalization--Persons of Japanese Race--"White Persons"; Bankruptcy--Suit by Trustee--Recovery of Property Transferred by Bankrupt; Carriers--Duty to Person Riding on Engine; Carriers--Through Contract--Liability of Connecting Carriers; Color of Title as Extending Possession of Adverse Claimant--Deed to Claimant's Vendor; Constitutional Law--Due Process of Law--White and Negro Pupils; Constitutional Law--Interstate Commerce--Power of Congress to Regulate; Constitutional Law--Secret Societies--Unauthorized Wearing of Badges; Conversion--Time of Conversion--Pledges--Assertion of Title; Corporations--Stockholder's Liability--Enforcement in Other States; Damages--For Interference with Employment--Mental Suffering an Element; Dedication--Acceptance--Ordinance Fixing Grade; Deed--Acknowledgement Taken by Officer and Stockholder of Corporation Grantor; Deeds--Building Restriction--"Front Property Line" of Corner Lot; Deeds--Restrictive Covenant--Electric Light Station …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1908

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 Jun 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Persons Entitled to Take--Officer and Stock-Holder of Corporation; Agency--Brokers--contract of Employment--Middleman--When Commissions are Earned; Bankruptcy--Discharge--Vacation; Bankruptcy--Jurisdiction--Summary Proceeding; Bills and Notes--Liability of Infant on note Given for Necessaries--Misrepresentation of Age; Carriers--Passenger's Signature to Excursion Ticket; Constitutional Law--Eleventh Amendment--Jurisdiction of Federal Circuit Court--Penalty for Disobeying Rate Legislation; Constitutional Law--State Taxation--Property in Transit; Corporations--Franchise and License Distinguished; Damages--Liquidated Damages--Discounts; Death by Wrongful Act--Statute--Construction--Death Outside the State--Right to Sue; Deeds--Adverse Possession--Color of Title; Evidence--Admissions in Pleadings; Evidence--Best Evidence; Evidence--Works on History as Evidence; Extortion--Indictment--Sufficiency; Imprisonment for Debt--Solitary Confinement; Injunction--Scope of Order Restraining Strike; Insane Persons--Conveyances--Avoidance--Ejectment; Insurance--Rescission of Contract--Action for--Interest of Beneficiaries; Interstate Commerce--Regulation of, …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1908

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 Dec 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Evidence of Performance--right to Compensation--Acting for both Parties; Assignment for Benefit of Creditors--Marshaling Assets; Bonds--Bona Fide Purchasers--Mandamus--Redemption of Bonds; Carriers--may, as Lessors, Contract for Total Exemption from Liability for Negligence; Constitutional law--Jurisdiction of Federal Courts to Review Contempt Proceedings in State Court; Contracts--Accord and Satisfaction--Consideration; Criminal Law--Venue--Statutes--Validity; Damages--Conversion; Deeds--Construction--Intent of Parties; Deeds--Seal Essential; Dower--rights of Widow Pending Assignment--Possession of Lands; Eminent domain--Interurban Railways; Evidence--Presumption as to Foreign Law; Fee Simple Estate--Restraints on Alienation; Fraudulent Conveyances--Sales in Bulk--Validity as Between the Parties--Lien for Price; Husband and Wife--Separation Agreements--Validity; Insurance--Fire--Concurrent Insurance; Insurance--Mutual Benefit--Unreasonable Change of By-Laws; Judgment--Res Judicata; Master and Servant--Liability of …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Insurance Policies--Cash Surrender Value; Bankruptcy--Partnership and Individual Assets; Bills and Notes--Payment by the United States of Pension Checks on Forged Indorsements--Recovery of Payment; Common Carriers--Defective Transfers; Constitutional Law--Commerce in Intoxicating Liquors--License Tax of Traveling Salesman; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Law--State Statute; Constitutional law--Police Power--Flag Legislation; Contracts--Assignments of--Right of Assignee Against Debtor; Corporations--Acquisition of Exemption in Merger; Deeds--Construction and Operation--Reservation and Exception; Deeds--Suit to Set Aside--Duress of Wife--Parties in Pari Delicto; Evidence--Confessions to One Not in Authority--Admissibility; Foreign Corporations--Effect on contracts of Failure to Register--Contracts; Fraud--Independent Investigation; Frauds, Statute of--agreement to Deal in Lands; Husband and Wife--Right to Disposition of …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Assigned Claim for Wages--Preference; Bankruptcy--time of Filing Claims; Banks and Banking--Liability of Stockholders--Unregistered Transfer; Banks and Banking--What is a Bank?; Bills and Notes--Indorsement Before Issue--Liabilities; Bills and Notes--usury--Evidence--Burden of Proof; Carriers--Freight Elevators as Carriers of Passengers; Carriers of Passengers--Servants--Communication of Disease; Constitutional Law--Delegation of Power; Constitutional Law--Police Power to Restrict Hours of Labor; Contracts--Mutuality; Courts--Criminal Law--Instructions to Jury; Covenants--Warranty--claims "By, Through or Under" Grantor--Eminent Domain; Criminal Law--Exclusion of Public From Trial; Criminal Law--Trial--conduct of Jury--comments on Defendant's Failure to Testify; Divorce--Custody of Minor Children--Duty to Support Father's Misconduct; Ejectment--When Maintainable--Easements; Estate by Entirety--Effect of Murder of Wife by Husband; Evidence--Wife …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Aliens - Right to Take Land by Descent - Loss of State's Right to Escheat; Bailment - Liability of Incidental Bailee; Bankruptcy - Preferences - Franchise Tax; Bankruptcy - Transfers Required to be Recorded - Preferences; Bills and Notes - Bona Fide Purchaser - Notice of Want of Power in Transferrer; Bills and Notes - Unrestricted Negotiability of Bills of Lading; Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - Statute Relating to Interstate Carriers as Employers; Constitutional Law - Indeterminate Sentence Law; Courts - Rules of Property - Stare Decisis; Criminal Law - Exclusion of Public from Trials; Criminal Law - Impeachment …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Admiralty--Liability of Public Corporation for Tort; Bankruptcy--bills and Notes--discharge of Indorser; Bankruptcy--Title to Stock Held by Stockholders; Bills and Notes--Renewal of Void Note--Moral Obligation Not a Good Consideration; Bills and Notes--Renewal of Void Note--Moral Obligation Sufficient Consideration; Carriers--contributory Negligence--Protruding Arms of Passengers; Carriers--Contributory Negligence--Protruding Arms of Passengers; Constitutional law--foreign Corporations--Service of Summons on the Auditor of State--Due Process of Law; Contract to Devise--Parol Evidence to vary Consideration Expressed in a Deed; Corporations--application for Shares--Contracts; Easements--Way of Necessity--Relation of Parties; Equity--Jurisdiction--Bills of Peace; Executors and Administrators--Allowance to Surviving Children--Stepchildren; Garnishment--Proceeds form Sale of Homestead Exempt; Garnishment--Waiver of Defect in Writ; Homestead--conveyance--Joinder …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney and Client--Unnecessary Services--Compensation; Bankruptcy--Title to Bankrupt's Property; Banks and Banking--Checks--Appropriation of Deposit--Garnishment; Chattel Mortgages--Retention of Possession and Power of Sale by Mortgagor--Fraud; Civil Rights--Power of Congress to Protect Against Individual Interference; Common Carriers--Limitation of Liability--Agreed Valuation; Constitutional Law--Delegation of Legislative Power--Regulations of Executive Departments; Constitutional Law--Regulation of Child Labor; Contracts--Mutuality--Consideration; Contracts--Restraint of Trade; Corporations--Misuse of Funds--Right of Stockholder to Sue; Corporations--Preferred Stock--Priorities--Cumulative Dividends; Covenants--Knowledge by the Grantee of Incumbrance; Criminal Law--conviction of Lesser Offense as Acquittal of Graver Offense--Former Jeopardy--Remanding Cause for Sentence; Damages--Mental Anguish--Undelivered Telegram; Deeds--Exceptions--Reservations--Abandonment of Right of Way--Reversion--Effect; Eminent Domain--Cemeteries; Evidence--Privileged Communications--Attorney and Client; Evidence--Res Gestae--Spontaneous …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Action by Trustee--Right of Set-Off; Bills and Notes--forged Check--Payment--Recovery Back; Boundaries--Artificial Bodies of Water; Carriers--who are Passengers--Fraud in Securing Carriage; Corporations--Exclusive Privileges--Statutory Construction; Corporations--Penal Offense--Construction of Statute; Costs--change of Venue--Liability of County; Criminal law--Proximate Cause--Deposit of Obscene Matter in the Mail; Damages--Status of Dead Bodies--Mutilation--Mental Suffering; Easements--Adverse Possession--Color of Title; Eminent Domain--Telephone Poles in Highway--No Additional Burden; Equity--Injunction Against Prosecution; Evidence--Aliens--Burden of Proof in Deportation Proceedings; False Imprisonment--Joinder of Causes of Action; Garnishment--Liability of Executor; Homestead--alienation by Widow--Abandonment--Limitation of Actions; Insurance--Interest of Owner in Property--Sole and Unconditional Owner; Insurance--Sale of One Company to Another--rights of Policy-Holders and Agents of the …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney--disbarment for Malpractice; Bills and Notes--Certification of Check; Bills and Notes--consideration--Illegal Use of Proceeds--Sunday Contracts; Bills and Notes--Notice of Protest; Carrier--Invalid Ticket--Tender of Cash Fare--Ejection of Passenger; Common Carriers--Express Companies--Municipal Tax on Delivery of Intoxicating Liquors--Mandamus to Compel Transportation; Common Carriers--Limitation of Liability by Special Contract--Hand Baggage; Constitutional Law--Obligation of Contract; Constitutional law--Privileges of Citizens--Interstate Commerce--Peddler's License; Corporations--conflict of Laws--Liability of Stockholders in Company Formed to Trade in a Foreign Country--Implied Authority to Pledge Personal Credit of Shareholders Under Foreign Law; Covenants--Privity of Estate; Criminal Law--False Pretenses--Post payable Check; Criminal Law--Presumption from Identity of Names; Deeds--Capacity of Grantor as Compared …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Use of "He" Instead of "They"; Adverse Possession--Easement--License--Legal Maxim; Attachment--Conflict of Jurisdictoin--State and Federal Courts; Bills and Notes--Negotiability of Overdue Note; Bills and Notes--Presentment; Common Carriers--Fellow Servant Rule--Departmental Doctrine; Conspiracy--Recovery Against One Alone; Constitutional Law--County Taxes--Statutory Limitation--Impairment of Contracts; Constitutional Law--Search And Seizure--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Sunday Law--Obligatory on Hebrews; Contracts to make a Particular Disposition of Property at Death--Specific Performance; Corporations--Banks and Banking--Negligence of Directors--Liability for Deceit--Liability to Creditors; Corporations--Issue of Convertible Bonds--Increase of Capital Stock--Preemptive Right of Stockholders; Covenants--Technical and Substantial Breach; Deeds--Condition Subsequent--Agreement to Support; Divorce--Alimony--Decree--Monion to Vacate; Dower--Rights of Divorced Wife; Eminent Domain--Telephone Poles in …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew Feb 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgment--Notary Agent of Grantee--Extra Compensation for Securing Acknowledgment; Attachment of Real Property--Conflict of Jurisdiction--Federal and State Courts; Attorney and Client--Contract Between--Fraudulent Conveyance; Bankruptcy--Preferences--Securing Attorney's Fee; Banks--Liability of Private Banker; Common Carriers--Duty to Receive Helpless Persons as Passengers--Degree of Care Required When Accepted; Common Carriers--duty Toward Hackmen at Depots--May Discriminate; Constitutional Law--Impairing Obligation of Contract--Contracts with Waterworks Companies; Constitutional Law--License for Issuing Trading Stamps; Constitutional Law--Trading Stamp Laws; Corporations--amendment of Charter--Service on--Liberty to Contract; Corporations--Constitutional Law--Pools and Trusts--Foreign Insurance Companies; Criminal law--Written instructions to Jury; damages--Fright Unconnected with Physical Injury; Deed--description--Conveyance to Trustee--Necessity of Word "heirs"--Rule in Shelley's Case--Adverse Possession; Evidence--Corporations--Books …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1905

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 Jan 1905

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 Dec 1904

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adoption--Inheritance by Representation; Adverse Possession--Effect of Former Judgment--Statute of Limitations; Adverse Possession--Statute of Limitations--Jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior; Concealed Property--Finder's Rights--Treasure Trove; constitutional Law--Eminent Domain--Taking Private Property for Private Use; Constitutional Law--Penalty for Breach of Labor contracts; Contract--Mutuality--Specific Performance; Corporations--contracts Between Corporations Having Common Shareholders and Officers--Suit in Name of Stockholder; Corporations--Liability of Officers--Negligent management--contracts Between Corporations Having Common Officers; Deed--Insane Person--Voidable Assignment; Ejectment--Impairment of Contract Obligation; Evidence--Confession--Admission; Evidence--Letters of Administration--How Far Evidence of Widowhood; Evidence--Personal Injury--Physical Examination of Plaintiff; Foreign Corporations--Business in Other States--License--Purpose of Incorporation--Evasion of State Laws; Fraud--Doctrine of Reasonable Inquiry; Guardian--Appointment--Jurisdiction--Sale of Ward's Lands; …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1904

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 May 1904

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Administrator--Appointment of, on Disappearance of Person; Agency--collection of Notes--Possession of the Instrument--Apparent Authority; Appeal--Right to Appeal After Satisfaction of Judgment; Attorney and Client--divorce Cases--contingent Fees--Prevention of Reconciliation; Attorneys--disbarment--Attacking Honesty of Judge; Bankruptcy--city Taxes--Priority; Carriers--Death by Wrongful Act--Stipulations Avoiding Liability for Negligence Toward free Passenger--Validity and Effect; Carriers--signed Ticket not the Contract; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Use of Flag for Advertising Purposes; Constitutional Law--Jurisdiction of Equity to Try Title to Office--Injunction; Contract--Validity--Conditions Attached to Goods--Purchase by Retail Trader from Wholesale Trader with Notice; corporations--forfeiture of Charter--Mandamus; Corporations--Garnishment of Stockholder for Unpaid Subscription; Criminal Law--Self-Defense; Deeds--Delivery--Testamentary Disposition; Ejectment--Description--Verdict--Judgment; Ejectment--Equitable Title in Plaintiff; Evidence--Admissions--Abandoned Pleadings; …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1903

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 Nov 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Who May Take--Competency Affected by Interest; Acknowledgement of Mortgage before Stockholder in Mortgage Corporation--Stockholder as Witness; Agency--Distinguished from Trust; Agency or Service--Telegraph Companies--Knowledge of Operator; Carrier--Refusal of Passenger to Pay Extra Fare--Assault by Conductor on Passenger While Enforcing the Company's Rules; Constitutional Law--Free Speech--Distribution of Circulars; Constitutional Law--Master and Servant--Weekly Payment of Wages; Constitutional Law--Municipal Corporations--Minimum Wage Law; Corporations--Partnership with an Individual; Corporations--Ultra Vires--Replevin Undertaking; Deed--Consideration--Bona Fide Purchaser; Eminent Domain--Appropriation of Railroad Property--compensation; Fraudulent Conveyances--Fraud on Creditors--Withholding Mortgage from Record; Fraudulent Conveyances--Loan by Wife to Husband; Garnishment--Rolling Stock--Rights of Garnishee; Guardian and Ward--Testamentary Guardian; Insurance--Pleading--Waiver--Failure of Notice and Proof--General and …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1903

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 …