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Constitutional Law - Validity Of State Use Tax On Mail Order Sales Of Foreign Corporation, Michigan Law Review
Constitutional Law - Validity Of State Use Tax On Mail Order Sales Of Foreign Corporation, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The respondent, a New York corporation licensed to do retail business in Iowa, did a large mail order business there also. Iowa customers sent orders by mail to the company's warehouses located outside that state, and the merchandise was shipped directly to the purchaser. On these mail order sales the company neither collected from its customers, nor paid to the state, the Iowa use tax. The petitioner, chairman of the state tax commission, threatened to cancel the respondent's license as a retailer and its permit to do business in Iowa unless such use tax were paid. Respondent obtained an injunction …
Conditional Sales -Tort Liability Of Vendor For Recaption Of Property Conditionally Sold
Conditional Sales -Tort Liability Of Vendor For Recaption Of Property Conditionally Sold
Michigan Law Review
Defendant transferred a piano to plaintiff under a conditional sales contract retaining the right in case of any default in payment "to peacefully or forcibly, and without process of law, enter the premises where said property is . . . and to take . . . possession thereof." Plaintiff de-faulted in payment. Employees of defendant, entering the house of plaintiff in his absence and without notice, removed the piano. Held, plaintiff may not recover for a conversion, but may recover for a breaking and entering whether defendant's agents broke into the house with actual force, or mere technical force, …