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Banks And Banking-Bank's Liability For Breach Of Its Duty To Corporate Depositor-Maley V. East Side Bank Of Chicago, Michigan Law Review Jan 1967

Banks And Banking-Bank's Liability For Breach Of Its Duty To Corporate Depositor-Maley V. East Side Bank Of Chicago, Michigan Law Review

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The three stockholders of a close corporation contracted to sell all of the corporate stock to Shulman for $5,000 down and a balance of $17,000 in two notes payable in thirty days. A resolution filed with the defendant depositary bank provided that Paul, the former president, was to act as the interim treasurer for the corporation and was to cosign, with Shulman, all checks drawn on the corporate account until the balance of the purchase price was tendered. Approximately one week after the agreement was made, the bank received an inordinate number of inquiries regarding the credit of the corporation, …


Corporations-Officers And Directors-Liability For Representative Acts Under The Sherman Act, Leon E. Irish Jan 1963

Corporations-Officers And Directors-Liability For Representative Acts Under The Sherman Act, Leon E. Irish

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An indictment brought under section 1 of the Sherman Act charged appellee and the corporation that employed him with conspiracy to eliminate price competition in the greater Kansas City milk market. Appellee was charged solely, in his capacity as officer, director or agent of the corporation. The district court dismissed the indictment on the ground that natural persons are indictable under section 1 of the Sherman Act only for acts done on their own account. On direct appeal to the Supreme Court, held, reversed and remanded. A corporate officer is liable under section 1 of the Sherman Act whether …


Agency - Liability Of Principal For Termination Of Agents Employment, William G. Mateer S.Ed. Jun 1957

Agency - Liability Of Principal For Termination Of Agents Employment, William G. Mateer S.Ed.

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In the summer of 1949, appellant entered into an oral contract for an indefinite time with the appellee whereby the former was granted an exclusive wholesale distributorship of appellee's farm and garden equipment. A four-year period followed in which appellant increased the number of dealers in appellee's product from four or five in 1949 to over one hundred in 1953. In the latter part of 1952 appellant contemplated an enlargement of its facilities which would require it to enter upon a fifteen-year lease. Since the lessor desired some assurances as to the duration of appellant's franchise, appellant wrote to appellee …


Banks And Banking-Payment By Savings Bank To Other Than Depositor Jan 1934

Banks And Banking-Payment By Savings Bank To Other Than Depositor

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The plaintiff, depositor in a savings bank, sued the bank to recover for a payment made, upon presentation of the passbook together with a forged receipt, to one known to have previously acted as the depositor's agent. In order to protect itself in such a case the bank had provided the following bylaw: "The passbook shall be the voucher of the depositor, and the possession of the passbook shall be sufficient authority to the bank to warrant any deposit or payment made or entered therein." Held, the bank was liable to the depositor, despite the by-law, as it was …


Bills And Notes - What Constitutes A Reasonable Time In Presenting A Check For Payment Dec 1932

Bills And Notes - What Constitutes A Reasonable Time In Presenting A Check For Payment

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Defendant delivered to the plaintiff, at about 10 o'clock A. M., a check drawn on the B bank. The next morning at 10:30 o'clock the plaintiff's agent went to drawee to cash the check. As there was "a run" being made on the bank that day, the agent was forced to stand in line. After waiting from 10:30 o'clock in the morning to 1 o'clock in the afternoon, he left without cashing the check. The next day the bank failed to open its doors. In an action by the plaintiff to recover the debt covered by the check, the defendant …


Negligence-"Family Automobile" Doctrine Applied To Motorboat Nov 1932

Negligence-"Family Automobile" Doctrine Applied To Motorboat

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Plaintiff, while riding as a guest in a motorboat owned and maintained by defendant for the pleasure of his family, sustained injuries caused by the alleged negligence of the operator, defendant's son. In an action brought for damages arising out of said injuries, Felcyn v. Gamble, et al., the order sustaining demurrer interposed by defendant was affirmed, the "family automobile" doctrine being declared inapplicable.


Review: A Textbook On Law And Business, J. Wayne Ley May 1931

Review: A Textbook On Law And Business, J. Wayne Ley

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A Book Review on A TEXTBOOK ON LAW AND BUSINESS By William H. Spencer


Bills And Notes -- Principal And Agent--Payment To Agent Of Drawer Upon Indorsement Forged By The Agent Dec 1930

Bills And Notes -- Principal And Agent--Payment To Agent Of Drawer Upon Indorsement Forged By The Agent

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A was an agent of P for the purpose of securing applications for loans and disbursing the money to the borrowers. The custom was for P, after approving the application, to send to A a check drawn on D bank, payable to the joint order of A and the borrower. It was also the custom for A, in following out the course of dealing outlined by P, to secure the borrower's indorsement, add his own, deposit the check to an agency account in X bank, and then pay out the money to the borrower by personal checks on his agency …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1922

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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