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Wills - Construction Of Technical Terms, Michigan Law Review
Wills - Construction Of Technical Terms, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Testatrix' will executed in 1916 provided, inter alia, "In case of the death of any of the above named children, I give . . . his share to his heirs." A son of testatrix died in 1929, survived only by his widow, complainant here, and his mother. In March 1938, the New York Decedent Estate Law was amended to provide that the word "heirs" when used in a statute, will or in any other written instrument prescribing the devolution of property rights, without express or implied declaration to the contrary, should be construed to mean the distributees, including a surviving …
Labor Law - National Labor Relations Act - Necessity Of A Written Contract To Meet Requirement Of Good Faith Collective Bargaining, Rex B. Martin
Labor Law - National Labor Relations Act - Necessity Of A Written Contract To Meet Requirement Of Good Faith Collective Bargaining, Rex B. Martin
Michigan Law Review
Having found that the petitioner, by refusing to sign an agreement reached with the union, was refusing to bargain collectively, the National Labor Relations Board ordered it to bargain by signing a written agreement. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit directed enforcement of the board's order. On certiorari to that court, held that the board's order should be enforced. H.J. Heinz Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, (U. S. 1941) 61 S. Ct. 320, affirming (C. C. A. 6th, 1940) 110 F. (2d) 843.
Workmen's Compensation - Injury Or Death Due To Existing Disease Aggravated By Ordinary Work., Michigan Law Review
Workmen's Compensation - Injury Or Death Due To Existing Disease Aggravated By Ordinary Work., Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
An employee who suffered from high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries was employed by defendant. After helping another workman unload six hundred sacks of cement weighing ninety-four pounds each in about forty minutes, the employee became ill and suffered a stroke which permanently paralyzed his left limbs. Held, compensation allowed under the Workmen's Compensation Act in spite of the fact that the employee was doing normal work of his employment in the usual way, and that he was at the time in an abnormal physical condition. Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Griggs, 190 Ga. 277, 9 …
Wills - Legacy To Creditor - Presumption Of Satisfaction Of Debt, Michigan Law Review
Wills - Legacy To Creditor - Presumption Of Satisfaction Of Debt, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a bank employee and personal friend of the testatrix, rendered to her and her late husband frequent and considerable services in connection with the management of their property. He received no compensation for these services, but both wife and husband indicated that he was to be compensated in the will of the survivor of the couple. There was evidence that the amount of such compensation was to be as much as $12,000. Actually, plaintiff received about $3,000 by the wife's will. It was not indicated in the will whether or not the legacy was intended to satisfy the indebtedness. …
Labor Law-National Labor Relations Act-Elections - What Constitutes A Majority, Charles D. Johnson
Labor Law-National Labor Relations Act-Elections - What Constitutes A Majority, Charles D. Johnson
Michigan Law Review
Three mills, all under the same management and represented by the same bargaining agents, were ordered by the National Labor Relations Board to desist from refusing to bargain with the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee. On application by the board to the court for a decree enforcing the order, the company claimed that the committee was not the lawful bargaining agency at the material dates. The T. W. O. C. had been certified by the board after an election in which a majority of the employees voted and a bare majority of these voted for the committee. In no instance were …
Constitutional Law- Eminent Domain - Power Of State To Condemn Land For Low-Cost Housing And Transfer To The United States, Oscar Freedenberg
Constitutional Law- Eminent Domain - Power Of State To Condemn Land For Low-Cost Housing And Transfer To The United States, Oscar Freedenberg
Michigan Law Review
Public low-cost housing legislation on a national scale in this country began with title II, section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, which authorized the administrator to embark upon a program for "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum-clearance projects." But soon thereafter, in United States v. Certain Lands in the City of Louisville, a majority of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided that the N.I.R.A. was unconstitutional so far as it attempted to authorize the condemnation of land by the United …
Garnishment Of Corporate Stock, Walter B. Connolly
Garnishment Of Corporate Stock, Walter B. Connolly
Michigan Law Review
Ancillary to an action on a foreign judgment obtained against defendant, plaintiff started a garnishment proceeding in Minnesota against certain domestic corporations including the Weisman Holding Co. Officers of the Weisman Holding Co. refused to make disclosures of the stock ownership of the principal defendant on the grounds that the plaintiff had no right to garnish defendant's shares of stock after the certificates for those shares had been delivered. Held, that the disclosure should be made because shares of corporate stock are "personalty" in possession of the corporation and subject to garnishment as the property of the shareholder, even …
Libel And Slander - Implied Representation That Plaintiff Consented To Write Her Love Story As Libel Per Se, Michigan Law Review
Libel And Slander - Implied Representation That Plaintiff Consented To Write Her Love Story As Libel Per Se, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff brought an action for libel against defendant for publishing in its magazine a story, which it represented as being written by plaintiff, purporting to relate indiscreet intimacies between plaintiff and a certain man. Defendant admitted the false representation of authorship, but requested a directed verdict after submitting in evidence testimony given by plaintiff in a prior law suit, in which she was said to have admitted intimacies fully as capable of bringing her into disrepute as were those published by defendant. On refusal by the court to direct a verdict, defendant excepted and appealed on the ground that the …
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Intangible Satisfaction From Gift As Income To The Donor, Walter B. Connolly
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Intangible Satisfaction From Gift As Income To The Donor, Walter B. Connolly
Michigan Law Review
Respondent, the owner of negotiable bonds, detached from them negotiable interest coupons shortly before their due date and delivered them as a gift to his son, who in the same year collected them at maturity. The commissioner of internal revenue ruled that the interest payments were taxable to the respondent donor. The circuit court of appeals reversed the order of the board of tax appeals sustaining the tax. Held, the commissioner was correct in including such interest payments in the taxable income of the donor. Helvering v. Horst, (U.S. 1940) 61 S. Ct. 144.
Trust Mortgages - Effect Of Foreclosure Of Subsequent Mortgage As Prior Lien Under Subordination Agreement Of Which Bondholders Had No Knowledge, Rex B. Martin
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff held bonds secured by a trust mortgage. The trustee, Moore, without the consent of all the bondholders, had agreed to subordinate the trust mortgage to a subsequent mortgage. Defendant, the assignee of the subsequent mortgagee, foreclosed its mortgage as a prior lien. Moore was properly served but did not appear, as no bondholder agreed to pay the costs of the litigation. In the present suit to invalidate the subordinating agreement and reinstate the trust mortgage as the prior lien, held, the judgment in the foreclosure action determined the issue of priority and was conclusive against all the bondholders. …
Taxation - Income Tax - Insurance - Amounts Received By Stockholders Under Life Insurance Contract, C. V. Beck Jr.
Taxation - Income Tax - Insurance - Amounts Received By Stockholders Under Life Insurance Contract, C. V. Beck Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A corporation took out several policies of insurance on the life of its president, naming itself as beneficiary. Later, reserving the right to hypothecate the policies, it assigned them to a trustee who agreed to distribute the proceeds of the policies to the stockholders of record at the time of the president's death. At the death of the president the proceeds were paid by the insurance companies to the trustee who then paid them pro rata to the stockholders. At this time the corporation had on hand earnings equivalent to the amount of distribution, and there was no showing that …
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.
Jurisdiction Of Employee Suits Under The Fair Labor Standards Act, George W. Crockett Jr.
Jurisdiction Of Employee Suits Under The Fair Labor Standards Act, George W. Crockett Jr.
Michigan Law Review
The statutory authority for employee suits under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is found in section 16(b). Suits under this section have been instituted in both state and federal courts. In practically every case the defendant has, by a motion to dismiss, challenged the jurisdiction of the court. The usual ground for the challenge in the state courts is that such suits seek to recover penalties incurred under a statute of the United States, and are, therefore, within the exclusive jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States. The jurisdiction of the federal district courts is generally …
Bills And Notes - Effect On Negotiability Of Recital Of Transaction Giving Rise To Note, Michigan Law Review
Bills And Notes - Effect On Negotiability Of Recital Of Transaction Giving Rise To Note, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
For Mighty King #14468 Saddle Horse was inscribed on the face of the note upon which the plaintiff, the holder of the note, brought suit against the maker. At the trial it was discovered that the payee of the note still held title to the horse, and the sale for which the note was given was a conditional one depending on whether or not one hoof of Mighty King healed. The plaintiff had been given no notice of this condition. Held, the mere statement of the consideration giving rise to the note did not serve as notice of the …
Monthly Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review
Monthly Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
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Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Exemption Of Life Insurance Proceeds When Paid In The Form Of Annuity, Spencer E. Irons
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Exemption Of Life Insurance Proceeds When Paid In The Form Of Annuity, Spencer E. Irons
Michigan Law Review
A taxpayer was the beneficiary of life insurance policies which required the insurance company to make fifty annual payments of $2,000 each. At the death of the insured in 1917, the commuted value of this obligation was $53,000. Prior to 1934, the taxpayer had received seventeen payments, aggregating $45,473.40, no part of which had been reported as income. For the year 1934, the taxpayer received $2,581.40, of which $2,000 was the annual payment, and $581.40 was an "excess interest" dividend. He again failed to include any of the amount in his gross income. The commissioner determined that under the Revenue …
Front Matter, Michigan Law Review
Front Matter, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Front Matter for Volume 39, Issue 3 of Michigan Law Review
Instalment Payment Of Judgments, Frederick Woodbridge
Instalment Payment Of Judgments, Frederick Woodbridge
Michigan Law Review
This article is concerned primarily with a discussion of satisfaction of judgments by instalment payments where the judgment debtor is the typical American wage earner. It is based upon an analysis of the applicable statutes, the experience recorded in decided cases, interviews with numerous judges administering the statutes, and observations in certain of the courts where that method is used.
Administrative Law - Scope Of Judicial Review - Doctrine Of The Ben Avon Case- Independent Determination By Court Of Both Law And Facts Where Confiscation Question Involved, Alfred I. Rothman
Michigan Law Review
A recent decision by the United States Supreme Court renders desirable a reexamination of the scope of judicial review of orders and decisions made by administrative bodies, and more specifically a reexamination of the doctrine of the Ben Avon case. There are several possibilities as to the finality that may be accorded to administrative fact determinations: first, findings may be conclusive and binding upon the reviewing court; second, they may be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence; third, they may be subject to independent determination by the court. To what extent, if any, the scope of review should take the …
Substance And Procedure In The Conflict Of Laws, Edgar H. Ailes
Substance And Procedure In The Conflict Of Laws, Edgar H. Ailes
Michigan Law Review
It is perhaps the most inveterate doctrine of the conflict of laws that all questions of procedure in a given instance are governed by the lex fori, or the law of the court invoked, regardless of the law under which the substantive rights of the parties accrued. For seven centuries, at least, courts and lawyers have broadly stated or assumed to be axiomatic the rule that substantive rights are fixed and immutable whilst the procedural devices by which such rights may be vindicated and enforced depend solely upon the law of the forum.
Glenn On Fraudulent Conveyances And Preferences, Fred T. Hanson
Glenn On Fraudulent Conveyances And Preferences, Fred T. Hanson
Michigan Law Review
Professor Glenn's new two volume work on Fraudulent Conveyances and Preferences is much more than a revised edition of his previous book. The treatment of preferences is new and the material in the old book is revised and expanded. This expansion is particularly evident in his dealing with commercial financing devices--consignments, trust receipts, after-acquired property clauses, and freehanded mortgages of goods and accounts--which he now views also from the standpoint of preference.
Bankruptcy - Collection Of Assets - Satisfaction Of Conversion Claim From Non-Estate Assets, Jerry P. Belknap
Bankruptcy - Collection Of Assets - Satisfaction Of Conversion Claim From Non-Estate Assets, Jerry P. Belknap
Michigan Law Review
It is well-settled that a trustee in bankruptcy must use due diligence in collecting the assets of the bankrupt estate, and that he will be charged with the value of assets lost by a failure to discharge this duty. A difficult problem arises, however, where the bankrupt has converted and wasted estate assets, and subsequently acquires sufficient non-estate assets to equal the value of the assets converted. If there is a method whereby the trustee can obtain restitution for the loss to the estate, he must use due diligence to collect the claim for the benefit of creditors, or be …
Banks And Banking -Trusts - Right Of Bank To Sell Participating Trust Certificates In Self-Owned Property, Michigan Law Review
Banks And Banking -Trusts - Right Of Bank To Sell Participating Trust Certificates In Self-Owned Property, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
In 1923 the trust company entered into a transaction with the land company by which the land company borrowed $130,000 with which it purchased a city property for slightly less than that amount and gave title to the trust company as security for the loan. Through a series of loans later negotiated the trust company came to have an investment of $150,000 in the property. In 1926 the trust company made an agreement with the land company pursuant to which the trust company declared itself trustee of the property at an appraised value almost fifty per cent above the purchase …
Labor Law - The Apex Decision And Its Effect On The Application Of The Sherman Act To Activities Of Labor Unions, Philip W. Buchen
Labor Law - The Apex Decision And Its Effect On The Application Of The Sherman Act To Activities Of Labor Unions, Philip W. Buchen
Michigan Law Review
Labor made a bold attempt in the case of Apex Hosiery Company v. Leader to procure a determination by the Supreme Court that labor organizations and their activities are exempt from the Sherman Act. The act, having survived this attack, presumably remains a potential weapon against labor unions. However, the Court by its decision has rejected a theory that the Sherman Act should be expanded on the principles of the Wagner Act decisions, has imposed a new restriction upon its application, and has opened the way for developments which will have substantially the effect of excluding labor unions from its …
Constitutional Law - Criminal Law And Procedure - Right To Effective Assistance Of Counsel, Walter Muller
Constitutional Law - Criminal Law And Procedure - Right To Effective Assistance Of Counsel, Walter Muller
Michigan Law Review
Robbery of a Federal Reserve Bank and jeopardizing lives by the use of dangerous weapons were the charges brought against defendant in a federal district court. Ten months after being taken into custody, he was finally brought to trial. On the latter date, for the first time, the defendant expressed to the court a desire to engage different counsel because of recent difficulties he had had with his original choice. The defendant was the complaining petitioner in a pending disbarment proceeding against his attorney. But the record did not show that the defendant disclosed the nature of those differences to …
Deeds - Construction - Effect Of Words Showing Purpose Of Grant, Michigan Law Review
Deeds - Construction - Effect Of Words Showing Purpose Of Grant, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sought to enjoin defendants from drilling for oil and gas on a strip of land which defendants claimed through a "right of way deed" conveying and warranting the strip to a railroad company "as and for its right of way'' and describing the land as "across and upon" a certain quarter-section. The deed recited as consideration $250 and the benefits accruing to the grantor through the construction and operation of a railroad on the land. Tracks were never laid on the strip, but the railroad company continued to pay taxes thereon. Held, that under Illinois law a fee …
Federal Courts - Rules Of Federal Procedure - Production Of Designated Documents And Things Under Rule 34, William C. Wetherbee Jr.
Federal Courts - Rules Of Federal Procedure - Production Of Designated Documents And Things Under Rule 34, William C. Wetherbee Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sued for damages and loss of profits caused by the unlawful acts of the defendant beginning in January, 1937. Under rule 34 of the new federal rules the defendant moved that the court order the plaintiff to produce its books showing the company's commercial results for the period prior to January 1, 1936; its duplicate federal income tax returns for the years 1934 to 1938; and all copies of statements furnished to any bank or credit company over a period of some five years. Held, motion granted in regard to books of account and duplicate income tax returns …
Insurance - Delay In Acting On Application - Tort Liability, William C. Wetherbee Jr.
Insurance - Delay In Acting On Application - Tort Liability, William C. Wetherbee Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Appellant, administrator of the deceased's estate, sued the defendant for damages caused by its negligent failure to accept or reject deceased's application for life insurance within a reasonable time. A deposit had been made on the premium, and, but for the delay, the policy would have been approved and the deceased covered by it at the time of his death. The jury returned a verdict for the appellant, who appealed when the judge rendered judgment non obstante veredicto in favor of appellee. Held, that the insurance company was under no duty to accept or reject the application within a …
Labor Law - Fair Labor Standards Act - Tips Not Considered Wages In Computing Statutory Minimum, Reed T. Phalan
Labor Law - Fair Labor Standards Act - Tips Not Considered Wages In Computing Statutory Minimum, Reed T. Phalan
Michigan Law Review
After the enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act, defendant terminal company adopted the so-called "make up" plan towards its redcap station porters. Under the plan, tips received by redcaps could, as formerly, be retained by them; in addition the redcap would report to the defendant the amounts received in tips, and the defendant would make up the deficiency if the tips did not aggregate the minimum legal wage. After the plan had been in operation for a time, plaintiff, agent and representative of the redcaps, brought suit for the difference between the amounts paid by the defendant and the …
Taxation - Commerce Clause - Tax By Seller State On Contract To Sell Interstate, Walter B. Connolly
Taxation - Commerce Clause - Tax By Seller State On Contract To Sell Interstate, Walter B. Connolly
Michigan Law Review
Appellants were partners in the securities business with offices in New York City. In the course of their business they agreed to sell shares of stock to two firms, one engaged in business in Philadelphia, the other in Washington, D. C. The securities were mailed to banks in Philadelphia and Washington for delivery upon payment of sight drafts attached. Under the tax law of the state of New York, a tax was levied on the sale of this stock. Appellants sought a refund of the tax on the ground that the statute imposed an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce. Held …