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Taxation - Federal Estate Tax - Life Insurance Payable To Specific Beneficiary, Roy L. Steinheimer Dec 1939

Taxation - Federal Estate Tax - Life Insurance Payable To Specific Beneficiary, Roy L. Steinheimer

Michigan Law Review

Six life insurance policies were taken out by decedent upon his own life between March 19, 1925 and January 2, 1929. On July 20, 1932 the decedent, by an instrument in writing, made an assignment of the policies to his wife and named her the beneficiary under the policies. From the date of the assignment until the date of his death, the decedent did not possess any incidents of ownership of the policies though he continued to pay the premiums. The wife of the decedent sued to recover the amount of the tax, assessed and paid on the net proceeds …


Insurance - Waiver And Estoppel As Applied To Excepted Risks, Michigan Law Review Nov 1939

Insurance - Waiver And Estoppel As Applied To Excepted Risks, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The appellee insurance company issued a policy of automobile liability insurance covering a motor truck owned by appellant, which policy stated that the occupation of assured is "handling farm machinery, crane fixtures and paints," and that the use made of the truck should be commercial ("commercial" being defined as "the transportation or delivery of goods, merchandise or other materials, and uses incidental thereto, in direct connection with the named assured's business occupation . . . including the loading and unloading thereof"). Appellant began to transport tanks of butone gas, which fact was known by appellee's agency on the date the …


Garnishment - Full Faith And Credit - Nature Of Principal Judgment, John N. Seaman Jun 1939

Garnishment - Full Faith And Credit - Nature Of Principal Judgment, John N. Seaman

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, appellee, sued an Illinois insurance company for legal services, and on the same day sued out a writ of garnishment against a Michigan debtor of the insurance company. Two days later the insurance company was dissolved in Illinois under the provisions of the Illinois Insurance Code, and an Illinois liquidator was vested with title to all of the insurance company's property, wherever located. The liquidator intervened in this case, claiming prior title to the garnishment debt, by virtue of the Illinois statute and judicial proceedings. Held, the commencement of the garnishment suit gave plaintiff a lien on the …


Bankruptcy-Corporate Reorganization - Fraternal Benefit Society Entitled To Benefits Of Section 77b, Russel T. Walker May 1939

Bankruptcy-Corporate Reorganization - Fraternal Benefit Society Entitled To Benefits Of Section 77b, Russel T. Walker

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff's right to petition for reorganization under section 77 B of the Bankruptcy Act was challenged on the ground that plaintiff was an "insurance corporation" within the meaning of section 4 of the Bankruptcy Act and therefore excepted from the benefits of the act. Held, that when Congress used the words "insurance corporation" in the Bankruptcy Act, it meant a corporation authorized by the law of its creation to do an insurance business. As Congress knew that the various States had authorized the formation of fraternal benefit societies, described as such in enabling statutes, when Congress passed this statute …


Contracts - Anticipatory Breach - Right To Recover In Advance On A Unilateral Obligation To Pay Money, John M. Ulman May 1939

Contracts - Anticipatory Breach - Right To Recover In Advance On A Unilateral Obligation To Pay Money, John M. Ulman

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff brought suit on an accident insurance policy. He alleged that the defendant insurer wholly repudiated the policy and informed plaintiff that it would not in any event pay him the monthly indemnity according to the terms of the policy even though a doctor of its own choice advised that the plaintiff was permanently disabled. Held, that under the Texas law, when one who is obligated by contract to make money payments to another absolutely repudiates and abandons the obligation without just excuse, the obligee is entitled to maintain his action in damages at once for the entire breach. …


Insurance -- Effect Of The Passenger-For-Hire Clauses On Scope Of Protection Under Automobile Insurance Policies, Benjamin G. Cox Apr 1939

Insurance -- Effect Of The Passenger-For-Hire Clauses On Scope Of Protection Under Automobile Insurance Policies, Benjamin G. Cox

Michigan Law Review

Quite common in automobile policies insuring against risks of fire, theft, collision, personal liability, etc., from the use of the automobile is a provision either effecting a termination of the policy or excluding the particular loss from the coverage of the policy if or when the automobile is used to carry passengers for hire or consideration. The full purport of this type passenger clause is unfortunately too often not realized by the insured person until he is met with a loss, unforeseen and against which he believed himself to be protected. This comment, then, will attempt an analysis of the …


Corporations - Physicians And Surgeons - Insurance - Sale Of Professional Services By A Corporation, Charles H. Haines Jr. Apr 1939

Corporations - Physicians And Surgeons - Insurance - Sale Of Professional Services By A Corporation, Charles H. Haines Jr.

Michigan Law Review

The Group Health Association, a corporation for the mutual benefit of its members, employed licensed physicians to give medical care to its members. For a lump sum consideration of $40,000 the association agreed to extend similar medical and hospital services to such employees of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation office as paid the monthly fee. In fear of quo warranto proceedings by the district attorney for illegal practice of medicine and by the superintendent of insurance for selling insurance, the association sought a declaration of its right to provide medical services in this manner. Held, a non-profit corporation through …


Evidence - Hearsay Rule - Use Of "Res Gestae", Henry L. Pitts Apr 1939

Evidence - Hearsay Rule - Use Of "Res Gestae", Henry L. Pitts

Michigan Law Review

In an action on a life policy which acknowledged receipt of the first premium, the insurer-defendant claimed that no premium payment was made and that delivery was only to allow inspection and comparison with a specimen copy of the policy already in the hands of insured's wife. The district court admitted testimony by the insured's wife, the beneficiary and plaintiff in the action, to the effect that when the insured turned the policy over to her he said it was hers and paid for. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sustained the ruling and, on motion for …