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Professional Negligence Liability Of Public Accountants, Carl S. Hawkins
Professional Negligence Liability Of Public Accountants, Carl S. Hawkins
Vanderbilt Law Review
At least since 1905, in this country, accountants have been recognized as "a skilled professional class ... subject generally to the same rules of liability for negligence in the practice of their profession as are members of other skilled professions."' The question, then, is not whether the usual concepts of professional negligence apply to accountants, but how. What situations have produced malpractice litigation? What are the specific practices or omissions which have resulted in liability? And what are the limits of liability? Like other professionals, the accountant usually gets into the position where he must exercise his professional skill as …
Contracts - Statute Of Frauds - Effect On Oral Exclusive Distributorship Agreement For Indefinite Duration, Robert Segar
Contracts - Statute Of Frauds - Effect On Oral Exclusive Distributorship Agreement For Indefinite Duration, Robert Segar
Michigan Law Review
In 1935 plaintiff brewery made an oral agreement of no definite duration by which defendant and his father, as partners, were given the exclusive right to distribute its beer. Defendant, changing from one partnership to another, complied with various wishes of the plaintiff such as furnishing warehousing, purchasing uniform amounts of beer throughout the year although seasonal demands varied, dissolving the second partnership in 1950, discontinuing distribution of a rival beer in 1954, and hiring a sales promotion man in June 1954; the latter three actions taken on plaintiff's assurance that he would continue defendant's distributorship. In July 1954 plaintiff, …