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Torts - Liability Of Landlord To Tenant For Disrepair, Michigan Law Review Feb 1938

Torts - Liability Of Landlord To Tenant For Disrepair, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A landlord made an oral, month-to-month lease of premises to one Harris, who occupied the premises as a beauty shop in which he employed his wife. Both at the time of the letting and subsequently, an agent of the landlord agreed to repair a defective cellar stairway, but failed to do so. The lessee's wife was injured by the collapse of the stairway; thereupon, the tenant and his wife sued the landlord. A verdict was directed against the tenant and judgment non obstante veredicto was entered against the wife. The wife appealed. Held, even assuming the wife not contributorily …


Torts - Proximate Cause -Remoteness Of Damage, Michigan Law Review May 1937

Torts - Proximate Cause -Remoteness Of Damage, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff brought an action for damages to his realty, alleging that the murder of his sister-in-law, on his property, by the defendant's decedent, induced numerous curiosity seekers to trespass on his land to view the scene of the crime. Held, the defendant's demurrer was sustained, for the damages were too remote. Koontz v. Keller, 52 Ohio App. 265, 3 N. E. (2d) 694 (1936).


Book Review. Legislative Loss Distribution In Negligence Actions By C. O. Gregory, Fowler V. Harper Jan 1937

Book Review. Legislative Loss Distribution In Negligence Actions By C. O. Gregory, Fowler V. Harper

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


The English Rule As To Liability For Unintended Consequences, George C. Tilley Apr 1935

The English Rule As To Liability For Unintended Consequences, George C. Tilley

Michigan Law Review

The question how far a defendant is liable in tort for the unintended consequences of his wrongful act, generally supposed to have been settled for England by the case of In re Polemis and Furness, Withy & Co., Ltd., has recently been reopened by the House of Lords decision in the case of Liesbosch Dredger v. S. S. Edison. Defendants, owners of the Edison, negligently sank the plaintiffs' dredger Liesbosch while the latter was being used by the plaintiffs in performance of a profitable contract to construct a harbor at Patras, Greece. There was evidence that, …


Torts--Infants Contributory Negligence, William S. Jett Jr. Jan 1935

Torts--Infants Contributory Negligence, William S. Jett Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1922

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Carriers of Passengers - Duty to Stop at Station to Permit Passenger to Alight-Contributory Negligence of Passenger Plaintiff's intestate was riding in the front end of a crowded vestibule car in the coach next to the tender of the eengine. When the train stopped at his station he tried to leave by the front end, but found the door from the vestibule closed. As he did not know how to open it, or was unwilling to be carried by his station, he stepped from his platform to the bumper of the tender and tried to follow it to the side …


Economic Aspects Of The Law Of Master And Servant, In Its Relation To Industrial Accidents, Clarence A. Lightner Apr 1909

Economic Aspects Of The Law Of Master And Servant, In Its Relation To Industrial Accidents, Clarence A. Lightner

Michigan Law Review

We hear it said frequently that the relations between master and servant have completely altered during the past century and that, due to the introduction of machinery, workmen are much more frequently and more seriously injured than formerly. In fact, these statements have become trite. It takes an article, such as that written by Arthur B. Reeve, in the February, 1907, number of Charities and the Commons, entitled "The Death Roll of Industry," to bring to our minds what these statements actually mean; to impress us with the seriousness of present conditions. Although statistics upon the matter are not as …