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Equity - Specific Performance Of Contract To Lend Money, Robert C. Lovejoy
Equity - Specific Performance Of Contract To Lend Money, Robert C. Lovejoy
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, through the Mortgage Service Bureau, which acted as intermediary, negotiated a loan from defendant bank, secured by a mortgage on plaintiff's land. Plaintiff executed and delivered notes and a mortgage, and defendant drew a check for one of the loan installments payable to plaintiff and the bureau, The latter without authority took the check, forged plaintiff's signature, and kept the money. The bureau being out of business and insolvent, plaintiff, with an unfinished house on his hands and without funds to complete it, sought specific performance of the agreement to lend. Held, plaintiff was entitled to specific performance, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Bankruptcy- Municipal Reorganization - Fairness Of Plan, Kenneth J. Nordstrom
Bankruptcy- Municipal Reorganization - Fairness Of Plan, Kenneth J. Nordstrom
Michigan Law Review
A local government district, finding itself hopelessly in debt, filed a petition for relief under Chapter IX of the Bankruptcy Act as amended. The municipal debt composition plan provided that bondholders would receive eight cents on the dollar. The evidence showed that a considerable quantity of bonds were bought by local landowners at much more than eight cents on the dollar, evidently for the purpose of being used in getting the approval of some such plan as proposed, in the expectation of an increase in value of their lands by improvements to be made by the debtor through a loan …
Bankruptcy - Corporate Reorganization - Absolute Priority Rule, Kenneth J. Nordstrom
Bankruptcy - Corporate Reorganization - Absolute Priority Rule, Kenneth J. Nordstrom
Michigan Law Review
-A plan for reorganization under section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act involved a debtor holding company and two subsidiaries. Each subsidiary had a bonded indebtedness which, including unpaid accrued interest, was in excess of the value of assets that were s
Bankruptcy - Rights Of Trustee As Against Mortgagee Under Mortgage Containing After-Acquired Property Clause, Charles D. Johnson
Bankruptcy - Rights Of Trustee As Against Mortgagee Under Mortgage Containing After-Acquired Property Clause, Charles D. Johnson
Michigan Law Review
A mortgage, containing an after-acquired property clause which described specifically many kinds of property which should pass under it when acquired, was given to bondholders as part of a refunding mortgage. Several mortgages were subsequently executed to the mortgagees covering some of the after-acquired property. After the intervention of bankruptcy a dispute arose between the mortgagees and the trustee over the right to possession of certain property not covered by the later mortgages and in the possession of the bankrupt at the time of the adjudication. Held, under section 47a(2) of the Bankruptcy Act, the trustee takes the property …
Bankruptcy - Amenability Of Farmers' Marketing Co-Operatives To Involuntary Proceedings, Kenneth J. Nordstrom
Bankruptcy - Amenability Of Farmers' Marketing Co-Operatives To Involuntary Proceedings, Kenneth J. Nordstrom
Michigan Law Review
Creditors of the Wisconsin Cooperative Mille Pool filed a petition asking that the milk pool be adjudicated an involuntary bankrupt. This co-operative association was organized under Wisconsin statutes to operate on a nonstock, nonprofit basis as the exclusive marketing agent for its members. The pool also marketed the products of patrons who were not members of the pool; however, sixty-five per cent of its patrons were active members. Held, the association was not a "moneyed, business, or commercial corporation" and hence was not amenable to adjudication as an involuntary bankrupt/ despite the fact that it was engaged in business …
Bankruptcy - Sufferance Of Turnover Order As An Act Of Bankruptcy, John C. Johnston
Bankruptcy - Sufferance Of Turnover Order As An Act Of Bankruptcy, John C. Johnston
Michigan Law Review
A parent corporation formed a subsidiary corporation in 1932, and transferred to the subsidiary certain of its assets. In 1938 the parent filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy and was adjudicated a bankrupt. Over a year later the referee entered a turnover order requiring the subsidiary to transfer to the parent's trustee all of its assets on the ground that the original transfer was void as being in fraud of creditors, and on the further ground that the subsidiary was in fact the "alter ego" of the parent corporation. Three days after this order was issued, creditors of the subsidiary …
Bankruptcy -Test Of Insolvency - Fair Valuation Of Debtor's Assets, William F. Hood
Bankruptcy -Test Of Insolvency - Fair Valuation Of Debtor's Assets, William F. Hood
Michigan Law Review
An objecting creditor seeking to preserve his judgment lien appealed from an order adjudicating B a bankrupt. The alleged act of bankruptcy was that B, while insolvent, permitted the objecting creditor to obtain a lien on his property by judicial proceedings and failed to discharge it within thirty days. B's principal asset was his interest in a spendthrift trust fund, valued at more than a million dollars, set up in favor of B and his brother. Under the terms of the trust each beneficiary was to receive one-half the approximately $44,000 a year income until he reached the …
Bankruptcy - Debts Not Affected By A Discharge - Goods Purchased When Insolvent With No Intent To Pay, William C. Wetherbee Jr.
Bankruptcy - Debts Not Affected By A Discharge - Goods Purchased When Insolvent With No Intent To Pay, William C. Wetherbee Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Respondent was suing the debtor in a municipal court of Georgia for goods purchased on account. When the debtor was ajudicated a bankrupt, the respondent changed his action from contract to tort by alleging that the bankrupt had purchased the goods when insolvent with no intent to pay for them. A judgment was obtained by respondent and the bankrupt subsequently received a discharge in bankruptcy. The bankrupt now asks that the respondent be enjoined from further proceeding to enforce this judgment by garnishment or in any other manner. Respondent claims that the judgment was not discharged since it was a …
Bankruptcy - Right Of Trustee Against Claimant Of Vendor's Lien, Michigan Law Review
Bankruptcy - Right Of Trustee Against Claimant Of Vendor's Lien, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
More than four months before bankruptcy the vendor sold an automobile truck to the bankrupt grocer under an unrecorded conditional sales contract, and a part of the purchase money, represented by an installment note, is still owing. The appellant was assigned the contract and note before the first installment became due. The truck was turned over to the trustee in bankruptcy, who sold it and holds the proceeds. Appellant filed a claim in bankruptcy asserting a statutory purchase money lien. Held, that the lien of the vendor prevails over the trustee. Commercial Credit Co. v. Davidson, (C. C. …
Fraudulent Conveyances - Executory Consideration As "Fair Consideration" Under The Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, Robert Kneeland
Fraudulent Conveyances - Executory Consideration As "Fair Consideration" Under The Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, Robert Kneeland
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a purchaser of mortgaged realty, claimed that there had been a series of conveyances of this property originating with a remote grantor, fraudulent as to said grantor's creditors. At the time plaintiff learned of this, he had already paid taxes on the property and paid $4605 on the purchase price, leaving a balance of $2986 due on his contract. Since, allegedly, plaintiff would have been subject to an action of the creditors to have the conveyance to him set aside/ plaintiff sought to join all creditors and defrauders in an attempt to clear the title, or, if the transaction …
Trusts - Tort Liability Of Trustee In His Representative Capacity, Reid J. Hatfield
Trusts - Tort Liability Of Trustee In His Representative Capacity, Reid J. Hatfield
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff brought suit to recover damages for injuries allegedly sustained because of the unsafe condition of a hotel building owned and operated by the defendant trustee. The trustee was an insolvent bank and trust company in the hands of the state superintendent of banks, who was also joined as defendant. The prayer was for a "judgment against the defendants in their fiduciary capacity toward the trust." On appeal of the lower court's judgment sustaining defendants' demurrer, held, that the trustee could be sued in his representative capacity. Carey v. Squire, 63 Ohio App. 476, 27 N. E. (2d) …
Bankruptcy - Effect Of Discharge - Suspension Of Driver's License For Non-Payment Of Judgment As Conflicting With The Bankruptcy Act, Walter Muller
Bankruptcy - Effect Of Discharge - Suspension Of Driver's License For Non-Payment Of Judgment As Conflicting With The Bankruptcy Act, Walter Muller
Michigan Law Review
Under section 94-b of the New York Vehicle and Traffic Law, as amended in 1936 and 1939, if a judgment entered against a driver for 'damages for injury to person or property remains unpaid for fifteen days, the clerk of the court where the judgment was entered must (but only upon written demand of the judgment creditor) forward a copy thereof to the commissioner of motor vehicles, whose duty it then becomes to suspend the driving license of such judgment debtor; further, section 94-c provides (a) that such suspension shall continue for such part of three years as the judgment …
Leasehold Rights In Bankruptcy And Equity Proceedings, A. O. Stanley
Leasehold Rights In Bankruptcy And Equity Proceedings, A. O. Stanley
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
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 …
Place Of Employment As A "Principal Place Of Business" Under The Bankruptcy Act - Higgins V. State Loan Company
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.