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Actions - Stay Of Proceedings To Await Result In "Test Case" Involving Similar Issues, Jack L. White
Actions - Stay Of Proceedings To Await Result In "Test Case" Involving Similar Issues, Jack L. White
Michigan Law Review
Suits were instituted by respondents, non-registered holding companies, in the District Court for the District of Columbia to enjoin the enforcement against them of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 on the ground that it was unconstitutional. On the same day that the first of these bills was filed, the Securities and Exchange Commission began suit in a federal district court in New York to compel the Electric Bond & Share Company and others, members of another utility system, to register as required by the act. A cross-bill in that action contested the validity of the act and …
The "Last Clear Chance" Doctrine In The Federal Courts, Nedra Evans
The "Last Clear Chance" Doctrine In The Federal Courts, Nedra Evans
Michigan Law Review
In analyzing the doctrine of "last clear chance," a qualification of the co.μtributory negligence rule, several questions must be considered. Perhaps the most important one is, (1) Does the court apply the doctrine of discovered peril or is it enough that defendant should have known, by the exercise of reasonable care, plaintiff's peril? (2) Is the doctrine of "last clear chance" confined to cases where the negligence of plaintiff has spent itself? (3) If the doctrine of undiscovered peril is followed for a licensee, will the court still apply the rule of discovered peril if plaintiff is a trespasser? (4) …