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Process-Applicability Of Nonresident Motorist Statutes To Accidents On Private Property, Chester Lloyd Jones S.Ed. Jun 1948

Process-Applicability Of Nonresident Motorist Statutes To Accidents On Private Property, Chester Lloyd Jones S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant, a nonresident combine operator, in the course of performance of a contract to harvest plaintiff's wheat crop, drove his vehicle into the plaintiff's wheat field thereby causing a fire which destroyed part of the crop. Plaintiff began an action against defendant by service in accordance with a nonresident motorist statute. The applicable statute read in part:" . . . the acceptance by a nonresident . . . of the rights and privileges . . . to operate motor vehicles on the public highways of the state . . . shall be deemed equivalent to an appointment . . . …


Judges-De Facto Judges, J. R. Swenson S.Ed. Jun 1948

Judges-De Facto Judges, J. R. Swenson S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In 1947, the Arkansas legislature created an additional division in the First Chancery Circuit and provided that the office be filled until the next general election by Ruth F. Hale, the then Master of Chancery in that circuit. In Arkansas, divorce is an equitable proceeding, and from the date of her appointment, Chancellor Hale had granted an estimated 1,750 divorces. Defendant appealed a divorce decree granted by Chancellor Hale alleging it to be void. Held, decree vacated. Three judges dissented. Howell v. Howell, (Ark. 1948) 208 S.W. (2d) 22.


Process-Obtaining Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporation By Service Of Process On Local Sales Agent, F. William Hutchinson S.Ed. Jun 1948

Process-Obtaining Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporation By Service Of Process On Local Sales Agent, F. William Hutchinson S.Ed.

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Defendant, a Texas manufacturing corporation, employed a corporate agent to solicit orders in New York. The agent maintained a showroom, used defendant's name on its office door and stationery, and paid all the expenses of the New York business out of sales commissions. All orders were subject, to acceptance by the defendant and were filled from Texas. In an action for trade-mark infringement brought in the New York state court and removed to the federal district court, service of summons and complaint was made upon the manager of the New York agency. The district court quashed the service and dismissed …


Recent Books, Michigan Law Review Jun 1948

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to note or review briefly current books on law and matters closely related thereto.


Notes, Michigan Law Review Jun 1948

Notes, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The information given in the notes is derived from inspection of the books, publisher's literature, and the ordinary library sources.


Monthly Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review Jun 1948

Monthly Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This departments lists the articles and comments which appear in twenty-four leading law reviews. The index embraces material published since the last issue of this REVIEW.


Recent Books, Michigan Law Review May 1948

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to note or review briefly current books on law and matters closely related thereto.


The Bill Of Rights, The Fourteenth Amendment And The Supreme Court, John Raeburn Green May 1948

The Bill Of Rights, The Fourteenth Amendment And The Supreme Court, John Raeburn Green

Michigan Law Review

The first enforcement of any of the First Amendment freedoms against the states, through the Fourteenth Amendment, was in 1927. In the twenty years since, these freedoms have, one by one, been brought within the protection of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as integral parts of the "liberty" which is safeguarded against state denial-the process having been completed in 1947 by the dictum that the prohibition of the establishment of religion ran against the states. The chronology of the struggle to enforce the Bill of Rights against the states, as well as other circumstances, suggests that the …


Some Problems In Special Assessment District Obligations, Irvin Long May 1948

Some Problems In Special Assessment District Obligations, Irvin Long

Michigan Law Review

The question of the jurisdiction of a board or officer authorized to construct a local improvement and levy special assessments therefor has always been troublesome, and is particularly so when bonds or other obligations are issued in anticipation of the collection of such assessments. A vast amount of litigation has occurred in Michigan in recent years over drain district assessments, and bonds which such districts have issued. While this is of primary interest to Michigan lawyers and investors in public securities, many of the questions involved seem to be of such a general nature, so far as special assessment procedure …


Bankruptcy-Contempt--Presumptions-Finality Of Turnover Orders In Contempt Actions And The Presumption Of Continued Possession, T. L. Tolan, Jr. S.Ed. May 1948

Bankruptcy-Contempt--Presumptions-Finality Of Turnover Orders In Contempt Actions And The Presumption Of Continued Possession, T. L. Tolan, Jr. S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Problems of jurisprudence and bankruptcy are raised by Maggio v. Zeitz, a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court. The facts were these: In April, I942, the Luma Camera Service was adjudged a bankrupt. Defendant was its principal officer. The bankrupt's books showed a large and unusual merchandise shortage for November and December, 1941. Despite defendant's denial, the referee and district judge were satisfied that defendant had extracted the property from the estate before bankruptcy. But there was no evidence that defendant retained the goods or their proceeds. Relying on a presumption of continued possession, the referee ordered …


Constitutional Law--The President's Loyalty Order--Standards, Procedure And Constitutional Aspects, William J. Schrenk, Jr. May 1948

Constitutional Law--The President's Loyalty Order--Standards, Procedure And Constitutional Aspects, William J. Schrenk, Jr.

Michigan Law Review

In the most recent of the efforts of the last several years to protect the ranks of officers and employees of the federal government from infiltration by foreign agents and persons whose interests are inimical to those of the United States, President Truman, on March 21, 1947, issued his "Loyalty Order." The first item in the pattern of statutes, orders, and regulations which supplies the background for the controversial Order No. 9835 was the Hatch Act of 1939, by which Congress prohibited federal employees from membership in organizations advocating the overthrow of the constitutional form of government. One year later, …


Federal Courts-Rule 20 Of Federal Rules Of Criminal Procedure-Constitutionality, William B. Harvey May 1948

Federal Courts-Rule 20 Of Federal Rules Of Criminal Procedure-Constitutionality, William B. Harvey

Michigan Law Review

One of the few real innovations in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is incorporated in Rule 20 which provides that a defendant who is arrested in a district other than that in which the indictment has been returned may declare in writing his desire to plead guilty and waive trial in the district of the crime. In this event, with the approval of the United States Attornies for both districts, the clerk of the court to which the indictment was returned is authorized to forward the papers to the clerk of the court for the district in which the …


Constitutional Law-Equal Protection-Judicial Enforcement Of Race Restrictive Covenant, Charles B. Blackmar S.Ed. May 1948

Constitutional Law-Equal Protection-Judicial Enforcement Of Race Restrictive Covenant, Charles B. Blackmar S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The highest courts of Missouri and Michigan, and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, had held that restrictions against occupancy of land by negroes were enforceable by injunction. On certiorari, held, reversed. Enforcement of such restrictions by state courts constitutes a denial of equal protection of the laws. Enforcement by courts of the District violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and also it is contrary to the public policy of the United States to allow a federal court to enforce an agreement which a state court could not constitutionally enforce. Shelley v. Kraemer, (U.S. …


Partnership-Effect Of Provision That Executor Of Deceased Partner Shall Continue Partnership As Partner, Irving Slifkin S.Ed. May 1948

Partnership-Effect Of Provision That Executor Of Deceased Partner Shall Continue Partnership As Partner, Irving Slifkin S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In a recent decision the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the validity of a provision in a partnership agreement to the effect that the personal representative of the deceased partner should continue the business as a partner, and also stated: "There is no doubt that a partner may provide by his will that the partnership shall continue notwithstanding his death." The deceased partner by his will gave to his executor broad discretionary powers of sale over all of his property. To his widow the deceased partner bequeathed a share of his interest in the partnership business. The executor of the deceased …


Constitutional Law-Procedural Due Process Denied By Michigan's "One-Man Grand Jury'', Robert J. Nordstrom May 1948

Constitutional Law-Procedural Due Process Denied By Michigan's "One-Man Grand Jury'', Robert J. Nordstrom

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Petitioner was summoned to appear as a witness before one of Oakland County's judges who was then acting in the capacity of "one-man grand juror." This proceeding was attended only by petitioner, the judge grand juror, and two other circuit judges acting as advisers to the latter. The purpose was to investigate alleged misconduct on the part of law-enforcing officials through the acceptance of bribes in the form of sales of worthless "bonds" on pin-ball machines. Petitioner admitted purchasing these "bonds" but could. not recall just what he had done with them when they had expired. Concluding that the petitioner's …


Corporations-Right To Practice Optometry Through Licensed Employees, A. E. Anderson S.Ed. May 1948

Corporations-Right To Practice Optometry Through Licensed Employees, A. E. Anderson S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant, an Oregon corporation engaged in a general optical business, employed in each of its stores a registered optometrist as manager. The optometrists were paid a flat salary and made examinations free of charge, whether eyeglasses were later purchased from defendant or not. The state commenced a proceeding to oust defendant of its corporate franchise on the ground that it was unlawfully engaged in the practice of optometry. The trial court dismissed the proceedings. On appeal, held, reversed. Because of the confidential relationship which exists between practitioner and patient, optometry must be classed as a profession, and it is …


Evidence- Statutes - Contradiction Of Legislative Journal Entry To Show Date Of Receipt Of Bill By Governor, Emerson T. Chandler May 1948

Evidence- Statutes - Contradiction Of Legislative Journal Entry To Show Date Of Receipt Of Bill By Governor, Emerson T. Chandler

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a tax assessor, sought to recover salary claims against a county, contending that compensation was payable under an act passed by the General Assembly but vetoed by the governor. An entry in the House journal reported delivery of the bill to the governor on March 5. The Assembly adjourned March 13, and the governor vetoed the bill March 28. An official receipt dated March 10 had been given for the bill by the governor's office. The Arkansas Constitution gives the governor five days within which to approve or disapprove the bill. If he fails to act, the bill becomes …


Taxation-Estate Tax-Reservation Of Power To Amend Trust, Samuel N. Greenspoon S.Ed. May 1948

Taxation-Estate Tax-Reservation Of Power To Amend Trust, Samuel N. Greenspoon S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Settlor executed a trust indenture in 1915 whereby a trust was established for the benefit of his three minor children. Income was to be accumulated for the benefit of the three children until they respectively attained majority, and provision was made for the death of any child under 21 without surviving issue. The settlor then reserved "the power from time to time by an instrument in writing signed by me to amend this trust instrument so that it will more clearly express my actual intentions if I shall consider such amendments advisable, as to which I shall be the sole …


Nuisance-Liability For Injury Caused By Encroaching Tree Roots, L. B. Lea May 1948

Nuisance-Liability For Injury Caused By Encroaching Tree Roots, L. B. Lea

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff and defendant were ad joining landowners. Roots of poplar trees on defendant's land extended onto plaintiff's premises, clogging the sewage system and extracting such nutritional value from the land as to injure her lawn and flower garden. Plaintiff brought an action for damages and equitable relief. Judgment was rendered for defendant on demurrer. On appeal, held, reversed. The encroaching roots constituted an actionable nuisance. Plaintiff was not limited to the self-help remedy of cutting the roots at the boundary line. Mead v. Vincent, (Okla. 1947) 187 P. (2d) 994.


Labor Law - "Channeling" The Duty To Bargain - Effect Of Violation Of "No-Strike" Clause In Existing Agreement, John F. Buchman S.Ed. May 1948

Labor Law - "Channeling" The Duty To Bargain - Effect Of Violation Of "No-Strike" Clause In Existing Agreement, John F. Buchman S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Employer and union had an existing collective agreement which provided detailed procedures for adjusting grievances, including arbitration as the final step, and contained a no-strike clause. Disputes arose concerning action taken by the employer affecting working schedules, overtime work, and other conditions of employment without consulting the union; and disciplinary measures were taken against certain employees in pursuance of the new working rules. The union finally called a strike, without filing grievances according to the contract procedure on the disputes which were the immediate causes of the strike. The employer discontinued hearings on two pending grievances and refused to negotiate …


Notes, Michigan Law Review May 1948

Notes, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The information given in the notes is derived from inspection of the books, publisher's literature, and the ordinary library sources.


Monthly Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review May 1948

Monthly Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This departments lists the articles and comments which appear in twenty-four leading law reviews. The index embraces material published since the last issue of this REVIEW.


Constitutional Law - War Contracts - Effect Of Constitutional Issues On The Exhaustion Of Administrative Remedies Doctrine, Richard V. Ehrick Apr 1948

Constitutional Law - War Contracts - Effect Of Constitutional Issues On The Exhaustion Of Administrative Remedies Doctrine, Richard V. Ehrick

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a manufacturer of war materials under subcontracts with government contractors, filed suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia requesting a declaratory judgment holding the First and Second Renegotiation Acts unconstitutional and, as a consequence thereof, injunctive relief from threatened action by the defendants to recover alleged excessive profits. The district court dismissed the complaint on the grounds (1) that the suit was premature, plaintiff having failed to exhaust the prescribed administrative procedure, and (2) that the available legal and administrative remedies were adequate, the right to equitable relief not being established either on the basis of …


Constitutional Law--Commerce Clause--Foreign Commerce--Validity Of State Statute Prohibiting Racial Discrimination By Carrier, Bruce L. Moore S.Ed. Apr 1948

Constitutional Law--Commerce Clause--Foreign Commerce--Validity Of State Statute Prohibiting Racial Discrimination By Carrier, Bruce L. Moore S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Appellant owns and operates two steamships for transportation of its patrons between Detroit and Bois Blanc Island, part of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The island is owned by appellant and operated as an amusement and recreation center for the people of Detroit. For refusal to transport a negro girl, appellant was prosecuted and convicted under the Michigan Civil Rights Act which provides that "All persons within the jurisdiction of this state shall be entitled to full and equal accommodations . . . facilities and privileges . . . of public conveyances on land and water . . . ," …


Vested Rights And The Portal-To-Portal Act, Ray A. Brown Apr 1948

Vested Rights And The Portal-To-Portal Act, Ray A. Brown

Michigan Law Review

The Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 attempts, by new and retroactive definitions of what constitutes working time of an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, to deprive employees of claims under that earlier act, to which the Supreme Court of the United States has held they were entitled. This article will discuss whether this can be done under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.


Definiteness And Particularity In Patent Claims, William Redin Woodward Apr 1948

Definiteness And Particularity In Patent Claims, William Redin Woodward

Michigan Law Review

To the uninitiated the professional jargon of patents, and particularly of patent claims, is somewhat mystifying even in the most ordinary cases. The profession likes to define the elements of apparatus as "means" for this, "means" for that and "means" for the other. Words like "plurality," "predetermined" and "comminuted" find remarkably frequent use by patent attorneys. And the habit of using out-of-the-way verbiage may lead the practitioner by force of habit to pass over a simple term like "sleeping car" in favor of a more elaborate phrase like "a communal vehicle for the dormitory accommodation of nocturnal viators." But it …


Constitutional Law--White Primaries--Rice V. Elmore, Irving Slifkin S.Ed. Apr 1948

Constitutional Law--White Primaries--Rice V. Elmore, Irving Slifkin S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The right of the negro to vote has constantly been challenged in attempts to destroy or at least to control the exercise of that right. The Fifteenth Amendment secures the right to vote free from interference on a racial basis by the states or the national government. In the states where there is a large negro population varied efforts have been attempted in order to control and nullify the negro vote. These efforts have been manifested in various forms-the grandfather clause, property ownership requirements, the poll tax, character tests, and literacy tests.


Quasi-Contracts-Recission-Liability And Remedies For Innocent Misrepresentation, Bruce L. Moore S.Ed. Apr 1948

Quasi-Contracts-Recission-Liability And Remedies For Innocent Misrepresentation, Bruce L. Moore S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

A number of courts and most writers recognize the existence of three types of misrepresentation. One type is described as intentional, a second type as negligent, and a third type as innocent. An innocent misrepresentation may be defined as one believed to be true and made without negligence, but false in fact.


Constitutional Law-Due Process -Of Law-Freedom Of Religion- Voluntary Religious Classes Held In Public School Building During School Hours, E.C. V. Greenwood Apr 1948

Constitutional Law-Due Process -Of Law-Freedom Of Religion- Voluntary Religious Classes Held In Public School Building During School Hours, E.C. V. Greenwood

Michigan Law Review

Appellant, a resident and taxpayer of the Champaign School District and parent of a child attending the public schools of the district, petitioned for a writ of mandamus to compel the district to discontinue religious classes held in the public schools during regular school hours. The classes in question were sponsored by a voluntary association of Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faiths, but other religious groups were free to establish classes upon the same basis. Instructional materials, a chosen course of study, and religious teachers were made available to the program by the association. Although employed by the association, the teachers …


Constitutional Law -Equal Protection - California Alien Land Law, J. R. Mackenzie Apr 1948

Constitutional Law -Equal Protection - California Alien Land Law, J. R. Mackenzie

Michigan Law Review

A Japanese alien paid for some agricultural land in California which was conveyed to his seven-year-old citizen son. All records indicated that the son owned the land, although the father, his guardian, managed it. The California Alien Land Law prohibits ownership of any interest in agricultural land by aliens ineligible for citizenship. Property acquired in violation of the statute escheats as of the date of acquisition as does land transferred "with intent to prevent, evade, or avoid escheat." This intent is presumed prima facie whenever an ineligible alien pays the consideration for a transfer of land to one who may …