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Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Charles L. Kaufman, Edwin D. Dickinson, Lester S. Hecht, Leon L. Greenbaum Jun 1919

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Charles L. Kaufman, Edwin D. Dickinson, Lester S. Hecht, Leon L. Greenbaum

Michigan Law Review

Judicial Reform in Michigan - The legislature which has been in regular session this year has enacted a measure enlarging the scope of judicial action in a way likely to add very greatly to the iusefulness of the courts. This law authorizes courts of record to make binding declarations of the rights of parties prior to the commission of a wrongful act

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Note And Comment, George L. Canfield, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Orvid B. Tanner May 1919

Note And Comment, George L. Canfield, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Orvid B. Tanner

Michigan Law Review

Admiralty Rule of "Care and Cure" A Limit of Liability - One of the very ancient doctrines of the general maritime law is that a sailor injured in the service of the ship is entitled to care and cure at the expense of the ship, and to his wages, but nothing more in the nature of damages for negligence of the master or others of the ship's company. In the sixth article of the Rooles d'Oleron, for example, it is said,---"But if by the master's orders and commands any of the ship's company be in the service of the ship, …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Cemetaries - Civil Liabilities - Torts - Plaintiff sued defendant corporation for malicious prosecution by its sexton and secretary. Defendant was organized for cemetery purposes, not for profit, and without capital stock. The state general code provided that such an association might acquire and hold not exceeding one hundred acres of land, and also take any gift or devise, or the income thereof, in trust, "all of which shall be exempt from execution." Held, one justice dissenfing, under the maxim "expressio uniu, exclusio alterfus" the statute expressly excluded other property from execution. Hence defendant, though a charitable organization, was liable …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency - Respondeat Superior as to Liability of a Lodge for Negligence of a Subordinate Lodge - The Birmingham Lodge used what was called a "branding board" for initiating new members. A current of electricity was turned on for the purpose of creating on the blindfolded candidate an impression that he was being branded. This was so effective that it killed- one candidate. Nothing daunted by this the lodge tried it on another candidate, fifteen minutes later, possibly to see if it was still working. It was, and the administrator of the estate of the second deceased candidate now sues …

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Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John B. Waite, Ralph W. Aigler, Joseph H. Drake Apr 1919

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John B. Waite, Ralph W. Aigler, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

Repeals by Implication - Prohibition in Michigan - At the November election of. 1916 the people of the state of Michigan ratified the following amendment to the constitution of that state: "The manufacture, sale, giving away, bartering or furnishing of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spiritous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific or sacramental purposes shall be after April thirty, nineteen hundred eighteen, prohibited in the State forever. The Legislature shall by law provide regulations for the sale of such liquors for medicinal, mechanica, cheinical, scientific and sacramental purposes."

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Following the decision of the United States Supreme Court that the Wilson Act did not affect interstate shipments of liquor until final delivery by the carrier, Rhodes v. Iowa, 170 U. S. 412, (898), Congress passed the Webb-Kenyon Act, 37 Stat. at L. 699 (1913). Meantime, in 1913, 35 Stat. at L. 1136, Sec. 239, it was enacted that it should be a penal offense for any carier or other agent, in connection with the interstate carriage of intoxicating liquors, to collect the purchase price from the consignee, or in any manner act as agent of buyer or seller, except …

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Family Courts, Willis B. Perkins Mar 1919

Family Courts, Willis B. Perkins

Michigan Law Review

A great deal has been said, but very little has been authoritatively written upon the subject of Domestic Relations Courts in this country. So far as I know, no such court has yet been successfully established embodying the jurisdiction and powers the advocates of such a court claim it should possess. I am not unaware, however, that courts under the name ef Domestic Relations Courts have been established, notably in New York City and Cincinnati, and that certain Municipal Courts, notably in Chicago, have been given jurisdiction in certain family matters, but none of these courts, as at present organized, …

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Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Abraham Jacob Levin, Ralph W. Aigler, Edgar N. Durfee Mar 1919

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Abraham Jacob Levin, Ralph W. Aigler, Edgar N. Durfee

Michigan Law Review

New Trials for Technical Errors - A witness called to testify is presumed to be of good character. Hence no proof of it is necessary. But out of abundant caution this presumption is fortified by evidence. The witness is thus shown to be in fact exactly what the law presumes him to be. Result-the case is reversed for the commission of this grave and prejudicial error.-Lockett v. State (Ark. 1918), 207 S. W. 55.

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession - Railroad Right of Way - Defendant, by deed, acquired. title to a right of way, fifty feet wide and fenced within four feet of the line. Plaintiff owned the adjoining tract and more than ten years befori this action was brought, planted fruit trees up to the fence. Held, the Statute of Limitations did not run against defendant as to the four foot strip. Beyer.. Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co., (Ia. 918), A69 N.W. 651.

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bailments - Carriers - Conversion - Trover by Bailee (A Common Carrier) Against a Third Person - On the facts as stated by the court of last resort it is often difficult to discover why any action should ever have been thought of, and impossible to see how the judgment of the trial court should have been in favor of the preposterous claim of the plaintiff. Such seems to be the case of Farmers' Cotton Oil Co. v. Atlanta & St. A. B. Ry. Co. (Ala. I918), 79 So. 387. Plaintiff carrier by mistake delivered cotton seed to defendant company. …

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Verdicts, General And Special, Edson R. Sunderland Jan 1919

Verdicts, General And Special, Edson R. Sunderland

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The most remarkable thing about this case of Georgia v. Brailsford is that a matter of such elementary importance in the daily administration of the law, after being announced in so dramatic a way by the Supreme Court of the United States at the very threshold of its career, could have dropped into oblivion for a hundred years only to be repudiated in a way hardly less dramatic by a sharply divided court. The controversy here disclosed goes to the very heart of the jury system as it has been developed by the common law and is still almost universally …

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Law And Equity In The Federal Courts, Earl C. Arnold Jan 1919

Law And Equity In The Federal Courts, Earl C. Arnold

Kentucky Law Journal

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Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Willard T. Barbour, Victor H. Lane Dec 1918

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Willard T. Barbour, Victor H. Lane

Michigan Law Review

The Writ of Prohibition - Procedural Delay - A disheartening recrudescence of procedural red-tape is found in a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio. A contest arose over the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission to fix telephone rates in Cleveland. The Commission was engaged in a determination as to the reasonableness of a schedule of rates filed by the telephone company, when a petition was filed in the Common Pleas Court for an injunction against the charging of rates other than those fixed by a city ordinance.

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Building Restrictions - Single Private Dwelling on One Lot - What Is One Lot? Land was platted into sixty foot lots and conveyed from time to time to various purchasers subject to restriction, inter alia, that "There shall be nothing but a single private dwelling with the necessary outbuildings erected on each lot" Defendant became the owner of the westerly ten feet of lot 5o and the easterly forty feet of lot 51; the remaining twenty feet of lot 51 and the whole of lot 52 adjoining lot 51 on the other side became the property of plaintiff. Defendant being …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy - Dichargeability of Tort Judgment - Plaintiff recovered judgment against X for damages caused by X's negligent operation of his automobile. Afterwards X obtained a discharge in bankruptcy. Held, that the judgment was thereby discharged. Jefferson Transfer Co. v. Hull, (Wis. 1918), I66 N. W. i.

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bills and Notes - Dishonor by Nonpayment - Marginal Memoranda for Partial Payments - Suit by the holder on the following note: "$100.00. Hampden, N. D., Sept. 2, 1909. "On or before Sept. 2, 191o, after date, I promise to pay to the order of the Sageng Threshing Machine Company, of Minneapolis, Minn., one hundred dollars. "Value received, with interest at 6 per cent. "[Signed] ALBERT BENSON. "$25 will be paid Nov. ist, 1909. "$25 will be paid Jan. Ist, I910."

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Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood Mar 1918

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

The National Army Act and the Administration of the "Draft" - In Aryer v. U. S., and five similar cases attacking the validity of the socalled National Army Act of May 18, 1917, Public Statutes, No. 12, 65th Congress, c. -, - Stat. -. ) the Supreme Court unanimously sustained the validity of the Act so far as attacked. The contention that compulsory military service as provided in the Act is contrary to our fundamental conception of the nature of citizenship, and that such compulsion is repugnant to a free government and in conflict with the guaranties of the Constitution …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Constitutional Law - Taxation - Public Purpose - Rev. St. Me. 1903, c. 4, sec. 87, authorized any municipality to establish a permanent wood, coal, and fuel yard for the purpose of selling wood, coal, and fuel to its inhabitants at cost. Held, not to violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Jones v. City of Portland (U. S., 1917), 38 Sup. Ct Rep. 112.

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Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Edgar N. Durfee Feb 1918

Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Edgar N. Durfee

Michigan Law Review

Inducing Breach of Agreement by Employees Not to Join a Labor Union, in Order to Compel Unionization of Plaintiff's Business - In Hitchnan Coal & Coke Compazy v. John Mitchell, et al., (Dec. 10, 1917), 38 Sup. Ct. 6s, the novel question was presented to the Supreme Court of the United States, as to whether or not members of a labor Union could be enjoined from conspiring to persuade, and persuading, without violence or show of violence, plaintiff's employees, not members of the Union,-and who were working for plaintiff not for a specified time, but under an agreement not to …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney and Client - Contracts Restricting Settlement by Client - A contingent fee agreement made by an attorney with his client provided that the attorney should have a lien for his services on the amount received by reason of the claim, and also that neither party should compromise the claim without the consent of the other. The plaintiff brought suit for the amount of his services against the defendants in the prior suit, who admitted receiving notice of the above agreement. Held, an agreement prohibiting a client from settling a case without the attorney's consent is void as against public …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Accretion - Title to New Land - Certain lots in Section 31 bounded on one side by a river and on the opposite side by a section line were slowly eaten away and submerged by the action of the water. By this process the river was carried beyond the section line into Section 3o onto the land of P. After a time the river again shifted and gradually restored P's land and built new land in Section 31 where the above mentioned lots had been. As against D who had acquired tax deeds to the new land in Section 31. …

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Child Labor Law Case, Commerce Power Of Congress And Reserved Powers Of The States, Henry M. Bates Jan 1918

Child Labor Law Case, Commerce Power Of Congress And Reserved Powers Of The States, Henry M. Bates

Articles

The decision in the Child Labor Law case, Hammer v. Dagenhart, - U. S. -, 62 L. ed. -, decided June 3, 1918, would have caused much less surprise twenty-five years ago than it did when announced last June, for it is based upon two constitutional provisions concerning which the much wider and more varied experience of the last quarter century had developed theories, better defined and sounder than those of the earlier period. Those two provisions are the Tenth Amendment regarding the powers reserved to the States and the Commerce Clause. There has been an astonishing amount of faulty …

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Acquiring Jurisdiction Without Personal Service, Seizure Of Aid Of Statute, John R. Rood Jan 1918

Acquiring Jurisdiction Without Personal Service, Seizure Of Aid Of Statute, John R. Rood

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It is often assumed that courts can acquire jurisdiction only by personal service to give jurisdiction in personam, or by a seizure to give jurisdiction in rem; but it is not so. The assumption is induced no doubt by the fact that in the ordinary common law actions jurisdiction is acquired in that way. Mr. Justice Field very distinctly pointed out in the case of Pennoyer v. Neff (1877), 95 U. S. 714, that it was not the fact that the land was not seized that rendered the judgment void. It was the fact that the land was not the …

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Inducing Breach Of Agreement By Employees Not To Join A Labor Union, In Order To Compel Unionization Of Plaintiff's Business, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Jan 1918

Inducing Breach Of Agreement By Employees Not To Join A Labor Union, In Order To Compel Unionization Of Plaintiff's Business, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

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In Hitchnan Coal & Coke Compazy v. John Mitchell, et al., (Dec. 10, 1917), 38 Sup. Ct. 65, the novel question was presented to the Supreme Court of the United States, as to whether or not members of a labor Union could be enjoined from conspiring to persuade, and persuading, without violence or show of violence, plaintiff's employees, not members of the Union,-and who were working for plaintiff not for a specified time, but under an agreement not to continue in plaintiff's employment if they joined the Union, this agreement being fully known to defendants,-secretly to agree to join the …

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Power Of The U.S. Supreme Court To Enforce Judgments Against States, Henry M. Bates Jan 1918

Power Of The U.S. Supreme Court To Enforce Judgments Against States, Henry M. Bates

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Four and one-half centuries later the "sovereign state" of Virginia sued the "sovereign state" of West Virginia to recover a sum of money alleged to be due upon the agreement of West Virginia to assume its proportionate share of the debt of the old state of Virginia. The suit was brought in the Supreme Court of the United States, which after prolonged consideration rendered judgment for the plaintiff. No execution or other compulsory process was issued, however. But now after delays for various reasons and pretexts urged by West Virginia the court is compelled to face the problem of what …

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Cost Of Public Justice, John R. Rood Jan 1918

Cost Of Public Justice, John R. Rood

Articles

The common citizen who becomes victim of a wrong and seeks redress in the courts of America soon finds by bitter experience that it is better to bear those ills we have than go to law. The expense is more than the thing is worth. The result depends on who has the longest purse, the most endurance, and the shrewdest lawyer, and little on the merits of the case. When he gets to court he finds his remaining money is being spent, not in the trial of his case, but in deciding whether an absque hoc is a sine que …

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Full Faith And Credit And Jurisdiction, Willard T. Barbour Jan 1918

Full Faith And Credit And Jurisdiction, Willard T. Barbour

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The judgment of a sister state, when assailed by collateral attack, is often said to occupy a position intermediate between foreign and domestic judgments. Though the older American cases were inclined to examine into the merits of any foreign judgment, the present tendency is toward the adoption of the English view according to which a foreign judgment may be attacked collaterally only for want of jurisdiction or fraud. Dicey, Conflict of Laws (ed. 2) Ch. XVII; see note to Tremblay v. Aetna Life Insurance Co., 97 Me. 547, in 94 Am. St. Rep. 521, 538. But whereas any statement of …

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Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. Waite, Evans Holbrook, John R. Rood Jan 1918

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. Waite, Evans Holbrook, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

Injuries Arising "Out of" an Employment - An employee's duties take him into the streets where he is injured by being run into by an automobile or other vehicle; has he ground for recovery of compensation under the usual WOltM4a,'eS COMPENSATION AcT providing for an award for injuries "arising out of and in the course of his employment"? Since he was in the street in pursuance of his duties and not in going to or from work, it is clear that the injury was one arising in the "course of" the employment. But did it arise "out of' the employment?

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Animals - Injuries by Animals at Large - In an action for damages for injuries sustained by the kick of a horse, the petition alleged that for many days the defendant carelessly and negligently permitted a horse owned by him to run loose on the streets unattended, and that the plaintiff while playing about was kicked by the horse. On demurrer, held, no cause of action stated because no allegation that the owner knew the horse was vicious. Brady v. Str.aub, (Ky. Ct. of App. 1917), 197 S. W. 938.

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bailment - Artisan's Lien - Selling Automobile Tires - Appellee sought to enforce a lien on three touring cars for the price of eight casings sold and fitted on them by him. No charge was made for taking off the old casings and putting on the new ones. The lien was based on the statute giving a lien to wheelwrights who performed work and labor on carriages, wagons, farm irhplements, and other articles for such work and labor, and for all materials furnished by them and used in such product or repairs. AcTs or ARKANSAS, i903, p. 26o. Held, (one …

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