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Trade Restraints - Is The United States A Person Within The Treble Damages Provision Of The Sherman Antitrust Act?, William C. Whitehead
Trade Restraints - Is The United States A Person Within The Treble Damages Provision Of The Sherman Antitrust Act?, William C. Whitehead
Michigan Law Review
The United States filed a complaint charging that defendants had attempted collusively to fix prices in bids submitted by them to the federal government. A judgment for three times the money damages sustained was sought under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Held, that the United States is not a person within section 7 of the act under which relief was demanded. United States v. Cooper Corp., 312 U. S. 600, 61 S. Ct. 742 (1941).
Administrative Law - Compulsory Process To Obtain Evidence - Unreasonable Search And Seizure, William C. Wetherbee, Jr.
Administrative Law - Compulsory Process To Obtain Evidence - Unreasonable Search And Seizure, William C. Wetherbee, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
That the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum must comply with the provisions of the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures was first established in the case of Boyd v. United States. The writ was there obtained for the purpose of extracting from a person evidence which was to be used against him in a criminal proceeding or forfeiture. This compulsory process which gave the state possession of a man's personal papers to incriminate him was considered a violation of not only the Fifth, but also the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court could have reached the same result …
Front Matter, Michigan Law Review
Front Matter, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Front Matter for Volume 40, Issue 1 of Michigan Law Review
Limitation Of Actions - Landlord And Tenant - Installment Rent Payments, Reid J. Hatfield
Limitation Of Actions - Landlord And Tenant - Installment Rent Payments, Reid J. Hatfield
Michigan Law Review
Defendant rented a farm from plaintiff under a written lease for five years and then held over under the same terms by an oral agreement. Plaintiff brought an action for arrearages in rent payments, claiming that the four-year statute of limitations on open book accounts was applicable, but defendant alleged that the two-year statute on oral contracts barred the action. Held, the two-year statute was applicable and barred the action. When rent is payable in specified monthly sums, the statute runs from the respective date when each installment falls due. Tillson v. Peters, 41 Cal. App. (2d) 671, …
Mortgages - Subrogation Of A Volunteer, Herbert R. Whiting
Mortgages - Subrogation Of A Volunteer, Herbert R. Whiting
Michigan Law Review
After the marriage of the plaintiff to Victor Scheutz the latter's mother conveyed certain property to Victor and his sister, Viola, subject to an outstanding mortgage which the grantees assumed. Immediately after the completion of this transaction Victor and Viola, with plaintiff joining to release her dower, executed deeds of reconveyance to their mother. Thereafter Victor, Viola, and their mother, and plaintiff used the premises as a summer cottage until 1939, when plaintiff was granted a divorce. In 1932 upon request by the mortgagee for part payment of the mortgage debt plaintiff paid it in full. In this action, instituted …
Neutral Convoys In Law And Practice, Benjamin Akzin
Neutral Convoys In Law And Practice, Benjamin Akzin
Michigan Law Review
The following study, based on law and past practice, aims at clarifying the status of neutral convoys in relation to the problem of convoying American supplies to Great Britain in the present war as it stood under the Neutrality Act of 1939. The question at issue touches both upon international law and American constitutional law. Both these aspects are investigated in the following pages.
Federal Intervention In Labor Disputes And Collective Bargaining-The Hutcheson Case, Ludwig Teller
Federal Intervention In Labor Disputes And Collective Bargaining-The Hutcheson Case, Ludwig Teller
Michigan Law Review
The very face of federal law governing labor unions and labor activities has been transformed by the recent holding by the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Hutcheson, that the Sherman, Clayton and Norris Acts must be read not separately but as "interlacing statutes," and that labor activity unenjoinable under the Norris Act is likewise and by the same token uncensurable under the Sherman Act. In so deciding, the high court has drastically affected the meaning of the Sherman Act, and the extent of its application to labor activities. New life has been given to the Clayton …
The Supreme Court, The Commerce Clause, And State Legislation, Vincent M. Barnett, Jr.
The Supreme Court, The Commerce Clause, And State Legislation, Vincent M. Barnett, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Recent decisions have revealed a growing rift in the Supreme Court on the question of the effect of the commerce clause on state legislation. This question, a perennial one in our constitutional history, concerns state legislation affecting in some way or other the carrying on of interstate business, and the validity of that legislation in view of the clause giving Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce. The permissible scope of state activity in the absence of Congressional action has been the troublesome problem. If Congress acts, the issue is a relatively simple one. When the state action conflicts with …
Holding Company Act - "Fair And Equitable" Plan, Michigan Law Review
Holding Company Act - "Fair And Equitable" Plan, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Should the words "fair and equitable" in section II (e) of the Holding Company Act be construed differently than the same words in section 77 B of the Bankruptcy Act? The Securities and Exchange Commission faced this question in disposing of a proposed plan of merger involving Utility Operators Company and subsidiaries. A divided commission gave an affirmative answer to the above question, holding "fair and equitable" in the Holding Company Act to permit relative priority. This holding merits particular interest since the United States Supreme Court has held the same words as used in section 77B permitted only absolute …
Wills - Validity Of Clause Restricting Alienation Of A Legacy During Administration, Herbert R. Whiting
Wills - Validity Of Clause Restricting Alienation Of A Legacy During Administration, Herbert R. Whiting
Michigan Law Review
A Pennsylvania court in Horton's Estate held that legacies are subject to garnishment by a creditor of the legatee while the property is in the hands of the deceased's executor. The case also intimated that had the testator so provided in his will this process would not lie and the creditor would have to stand by until possession of the property passed to the legatee. This last bit of dictum has since been established as the law of Pennsylvania by Holmesburg Building Association v. Badger.
Annuities - Satisfaction Of Prior Deficiencies From Income Surplusages Of Subsequent Years, Edward H. Adams
Annuities - Satisfaction Of Prior Deficiencies From Income Surplusages Of Subsequent Years, Edward H. Adams
Michigan Law Review
Testatrix left her estate in trust for the purpose of paying certain sums of money annually to named beneficiaries. In a codicil to her will, she provided that in case there was insufficient income to meet expenses and pay all annuities stated, certain of the beneficiaries were to be preferred. Deficiencies occurred so that all sums were not paid, but subsequently there was surplus income which the trustees desired to apply to the prior deficiencies. Held, one justice dissenting, that the surplus after paying the annuities for the present year could be applied to the deficiencies which had occurred …
Conflict Of Laws - Workmen's Compensation - Local Statute As A Defense To A Local Cause Of Action, John C. Johnston
Conflict Of Laws - Workmen's Compensation - Local Statute As A Defense To A Local Cause Of Action, John C. Johnston
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff resided and was employed in Texas as the manager of a local store owned by a corporation which operated a chain of stores in various states. While visiting the main office of his employer in Illinois, he was injured through the negligence of the defendant taxicab company. After applying for and receiving compensation from his employer under the Workmen's Compensation Law of Texas, plaintiff then brought action in Illinois against defendant to recover damages for his personal injuries. Under the Workmen's Compensation Act of Texas an employee who has received compensation under the act may bring an action against …
Bankruptcy - Preferential Transfers - The Chandler Act And Antecedent Debts, William C. Wetherbee, Jr.
Bankruptcy - Preferential Transfers - The Chandler Act And Antecedent Debts, William C. Wetherbee, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A canning company, in return for cans and supplies furnished it, gave its brokers the exclusive right to sell its canned goods and deduct the amount owing to them before turning over the proceeds. More than a year before the petition in bankruptcy, in compliance with a request for security from a seed company to which it was indebted, it made assignments of its right to these net proceeds to the seed company. The latter claims these proceeds as a secured creditor although they did not come into existence until after the petition in bankruptcy. Upon the referee's refusal to …
Federal Courts - Conflict Between The Federal Declaratory Judgments Act And The Johnson Act, Spencer E. Irons
Federal Courts - Conflict Between The Federal Declaratory Judgments Act And The Johnson Act, Spencer E. Irons
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff gas company contracted with defendant city to furnish gas from a certain field at rates fixed by ordinance. Plaintiff reserved the right, when this field became insufficient, to furnish gas from other fields at rates to be adjusted in accordance with the increased cost. In a suit in the federal district court for a declaratory judgment, plaintiff sought a determination that the local field had become insufficient, and that it was necessary to furnish gas from other fields. Plaintiff alleged that defendant city refused to recognize the changed conditions and insisted that plaintiff continue to furnish gas at the …
Federal Courts - Conflict Of Laws - Duty Of Federal Court To Apply State Conflict Of Laws Rules, Spencer E. Irons
Federal Courts - Conflict Of Laws - Duty Of Federal Court To Apply State Conflict Of Laws Rules, Spencer E. Irons
Michigan Law Review
In a suit on a contract brought in the United States District Court in Delaware, based on diversity of citizenship, the court allowed interest costs on the basis of the Civil Practice Act of New York where the contract was made. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the ruling upon the ground that it was the best rule, without regard to the Delaware conflicts law. On certiorari, held reversed, on the ground that the doctrine of Erie Railroad v. Tompkins prohibits such an independent determination by the federal court of conflict of laws rules. Klaxon Co. …
Corporations - Pre-Emptive Rights Of Shareholders In Originally Authorized But Unissued Capital Stock, Everett R. Trebilcock
Corporations - Pre-Emptive Rights Of Shareholders In Originally Authorized But Unissued Capital Stock, Everett R. Trebilcock
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a minority stockholder, brought an action to cancel 58,400 shares of originally authorized but unissued stock which the directors had issued to defendant general manager in payment of his services. Plaintiff contended this violated his pre-emptive right to subscribe to the shares and alleged the transaction was fraudulent in that defendant and the directors conspired to gain voting control. Held, the issue was proper because the stock was part of the first offering of original authorized capital stock to which plaintiff's pre-emptive right did not attach, and plaintiff failed to show collusion between directors and defendant to gain …
Principal And Surety - Right Of Surety To Subrogation To Claim Of Creditor Against Insolvent National Bank, William C. Whitehead
Principal And Surety - Right Of Surety To Subrogation To Claim Of Creditor Against Insolvent National Bank, William C. Whitehead
Michigan Law Review
At the closing of defendant bank the commonwealth of Pennsylvania had on deposit $135,000, which was secured by the bond of defendant with plaintiff as surety, and a pledge of bonds of $12,000 par value. The commonwealth received the first dividend, amounting to forty per cent, and plaintiff paid the balance, subtracting $12,441.44 obtained on the intermediate sale of the bonds. Plaintiff contends that it is entitled to subrogation on the basis of the full amount of the original claim of the commonwealth against defendant; and that dividends subsequent to the first should be paid on that claim, although not …
Labor Law - Jurisdictional Dispute - Validity Of Disposition By The A. F. Of L., Reed T. Phalan
Labor Law - Jurisdictional Dispute - Validity Of Disposition By The A. F. Of L., Reed T. Phalan
Michigan Law Review
Both the Brewery Workers Union and the Teamsters Union, members of the American Federation of Labor, demanded jurisdiction over drivers of brewery wagons and trucks. In 1933, the Federation decided the controversy in favor of the Teamsters Union. The Brewery Workers Union refused to abide by this decision and filed suit for an injunction to restrain the Teamsters Union and the Federation from carrying out the decision. The lower court granted the injunction, construing the certificate of participation granted the Brewery Workers Union by the Federation as giving a contract right of prior and exclusive jurisdiction over the disputed group …
Municipal Corporations - Tort Liability - Exemplary Damages, Michigan Law Review
Municipal Corporations - Tort Liability - Exemplary Damages, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff was injured in a collision between the car in which she was riding and a negligently driven fire truck owned by the defendant municipality. Plaintiff's declaration alleged that the fire trucks had been habitually driven in a grossly negligent manner, but the evidence offered at the trial did not substantiate this allegation. The trial court instructed the jury that it could include in the verdict such sum as might be warranted by the evidence as punitive or exemplary damages. The jury awarded $5,000 damages. Held, that plaintiff could recover for torts committed by the fire department, and that …
Monthly Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review
Monthly Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
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Book Notes, Michigan Law Review
Book Notes, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law and matters closely related thereto.
Trade Restraints - Antitrust Laws - Consent Decrees - Right Of Intervention Where Decree Reopened, Gerald M. Lively
Trade Restraints - Antitrust Laws - Consent Decrees - Right Of Intervention Where Decree Reopened, Gerald M. Lively
Michigan Law Review
In 1935, the Attorney General brought a suit in equity to enforce the antitrust laws, charging Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation and its controlled instrumentality, Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corporation, and individual defendants, with having conspired for the benefit of Columbia Gas to shut out operation in the Indiana-Ohio-Michigan area by the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, which had built a natural-gas pipe line from the Texas fields to the border of Indiana. Panhandle was an offspring of Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Company, or Mokan, which at the time of the suit owned half its stock and half its junior debt. …
Wills - Joint And Mutual Wills - Contracts To Bequeath And Devise - Statute Of Frauds, Charles J. O' Laughlin
Wills - Joint And Mutual Wills - Contracts To Bequeath And Devise - Statute Of Frauds, Charles J. O' Laughlin
Michigan Law Review
Husband and wife made joint and mutual wills, each giving to the survivor a life interest in his or her separate property with the remainder to their foster daughter, the plaintiff. The wife died first, but the husband destroyed the entire will, and took possession of all the wife's property. The husband then died intestate, and plaintiff brought suit against the heirs to enforce the dispositions made by the joint and mutual will. Plaintiff introduced evidence to show that the will was the product of a contract, and therefore irrevocable. Defendant objected on the ground that the agreement was not …
Infants - Minority As A Defense To Rescission For Fraud, Raymond H. Rapaport
Infants - Minority As A Defense To Rescission For Fraud, Raymond H. Rapaport
Michigan Law Review
Two defendants, one of whom was a minor, sold a business to the plaintiff. The plaintiff, in seeking to rescind the contract on the ground that it was induced by fraud, obtained a decree declaring the contract cancelled, and judgment was entered against the defendants for the sums they had received from the plaintiff. The minor defendant filed a petition to vacate the judgment as to him because during the trial no guardian ad litem had been appointed to represent him. Held, defendant is entitled to a new trial only if he could have made a good defense, and …
Labor Law- Fair Labor Standards Act- Right Of Employees To Waive Payment Of Award Of Back Wages, Spencer E. Irons
Labor Law- Fair Labor Standards Act- Right Of Employees To Waive Payment Of Award Of Back Wages, Spencer E. Irons
Michigan Law Review
In July, 1940, the Wage-Hour Administrator obtained a consent decree restraining defendant from violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, and a stipulation was filed which provided, among other things, that defendant should restore to its employees the difference between wages actually paid and the minimum wages which should have been paid under the act. Twelve of the fifteen employees in whose favor the award was made endorsed over the checks which they received with out obtaining any actual cash, and executed releases for the amounts due to them. In the present proceeding, the administrator sought a rule to show cause …
Securities Legislation - Public Utility Holding Company Act Jurisdiction Of The Securities And Exchange Commission, Robert Kneeland
Securities Legislation - Public Utility Holding Company Act Jurisdiction Of The Securities And Exchange Commission, Robert Kneeland
Michigan Law Review
In 1935 the International Paper and Power Company filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission to secure permanent exemption from the provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. While this application was pending, the company formed a plan for recapitalization of its stock, and applied to the commission for an order validating the plan. The report of the commission on this plan was approved by the requisite number of shareholders of the company, whereupon the commission entered an order purporting to exempt from the provisions of the act the stock and the warrants for stock …
Administrative Law - Doctrine Of Prior Resort - Resort To The Railway Adjustment Board Before Court Suit, Felicia I. Hmiel
Administrative Law - Doctrine Of Prior Resort - Resort To The Railway Adjustment Board Before Court Suit, Felicia I. Hmiel
Michigan Law Review
In 1937 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, a party to a collective bargaining agreement which protected the seniority rights of the company's employees, rehired one of its old employees and put his name on the seniority list ahead of those of the plaintiffs, who were hired in 1924. For breach of the agreement the plaintiffs brought suit in the Georgia court without first applying for relief to the National Railway Adjustment Board, which has jurisdiction over disputes relating to the interpretation and application of such agreements. Held, that the jurisdiction of the board does not prevent recourse to …
Excess Profits Taxation In 1941, Charles Victor Beck Jr., Jamille George Jamra, David L. Loeb
Excess Profits Taxation In 1941, Charles Victor Beck Jr., Jamille George Jamra, David L. Loeb
Michigan Law Review
The problems of business taxation are twofold: from the governmental standpoint, the problem is to obtain sufficient revenues at a minimum of cost and with the least resistance; from the business standpoint, the problem is to obtain lighter taxation where possible at a minimum of cost and with the greatest simplicity and uniformity. The excess profits tax has been devised by the economists of the several nations with the object of bolstering national taxing systems in extraordinary periods which demand abnormal revenues. With the advent of the excess profits tax, the desire for simplicity and low cost in taxation was …
Front Matter, Michigan Law Review
Front Matter, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Front Matter for Volume 39, Issue 8 of Michigan Law Review
The Impact Of The Law Of Powers Upon Our Internal Revenue Laws, Montgomery B. Angell
The Impact Of The Law Of Powers Upon Our Internal Revenue Laws, Montgomery B. Angell
Michigan Law Review
An interesting difference in view has arisen recently in the halls of the Harvard Law School on the use of powers of appointment under the federal estate tax act. One view is that the chief efficacy today of the power of appointment lies in its capacity for use in tax evasion, which should be corrected. The other view is that there is a salutary tendency toward using sensible and flexible powers of appointment, which should be encouraged in meeting changing and difficult family situations, but which would be checked were the former view accepted. Thus we find here the age-old …