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Recent Important Decisions Nov 1913

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Recent Important Decisions Jun 1913

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

Attachment - Property in Custodia Legis; Bankruptcy - Promise After Adjudication to Pay Dischargeable Debt; Bills and Notes - Provision for Extension of Time of Payment; Bills and Notes - Transfer as Collateral for Pre-Existing Debt; Carriers - Ticket Not Conclusive Evidence of Contract of Carriage; Constitutional Law - Race Discrimination in Selection of Jury; Corporations - Rights of Pledgor of Stock; Courts - English the Official Language of the Phillippines; Evidence - Declarations as to Pedigree; Evidence - Expert Testimony; Husband and Wife - Power of Husband to Dispose of his Personalty by Gift Causa Mortis; Insurance - Liability …


Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Jack M. Hendrick, Wilson W. Mills, Samuel H. Morris, George A. Cram Apr 1913

Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Jack M. Hendrick, Wilson W. Mills, Samuel H. Morris, George A. Cram

Michigan Law Review

The Effect of the Carmack Amendment to the Hepburn Act Upon State Laws as to Limitation by Contract of the Amount of the Liability of a Common Carrier - Three recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States involving the construction, of the Carmack Amendment to the Hepburn Act may be considered together, as the second was governed wholly and the third largely by the decision of the first. In the first case plaintiff delivered to defendant express company at Cincinnati, Ohio, a diamond, ring consigned to Augusta, Georgia. The package was never delivered, and plaintiff recovered judgment …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert L. Mayall, Sidney E. Doyle, Burke W. Shartel Mar 1913

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert L. Mayall, Sidney E. Doyle, Burke W. Shartel

Michigan Law Review

The Character of User In Prescription - As the possession of the claimant in a case of adverse possession must be shown to have been adverse in order to ripen into title, so also must the user in prescription be shown to have been adverse during -the endure prescriptive period. As to the burden of proving the adverse character of the possession in the first case there seems to be doubt whether there is a presumption of adverseness by showing open possession and acts of ownership, or whether there is a burden upon the claimant to go further. See 2 …


Declarations In The Course Of Duty Herein Of Refreshing Recollection, A N. Whitlock Mar 1913

Declarations In The Course Of Duty Herein Of Refreshing Recollection, A N. Whitlock

Michigan Law Review

The law of evidence is largely a law of exceptions. Lawyers and judges are not so frequently troubled with the question as to whether a certain bit of testimony is relevant, as they are in determining whether a certain bit of relevant testimony is admissible. In other words, the bulk of the law of evidence is concerned with exceptions to the general proposition that everything that is relevant is admissible. It should be noted that relevant is used as meaning "logically probative." The hearsay rule, various rules. With reference to opinion evidence, real evidence and evidence of character and the …


Recent Important Decisions Feb 1913

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy - Jurisdiction of the District Court Exclusive Within Its District - A trustee in bankruptcy appointed, by the District 'Court for the District of Illinois filed a petition in the District Court for the Western District of Michigan for a summary order to require the respondent to surrender to the trustee certain moneys claimed as the property of the bankrupt. The respondent was a resident of the Eastern District of Michigan, and denied the jurisdiction of the court to issue an order to be enforced in another district. Held that the jurisdiction of the District Courts, in all bankruptcy …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Wilson W. Mills, Sidney E. Doyle, Joseph J. Kennedy Jan 1913

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Wilson W. Mills, Sidney E. Doyle, Joseph J. Kennedy

Michigan Law Review

The Renvoi Theory Repudiated as a Test for Determining the Negotiability of a Note - A recent case decided by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma (Bell v. Riggs, 127 Pac. 427) involving, among others, a question as to what law governs the negotiability of a note made in one State and payable in another, though of little intrinsic value so far as that point is concerned, is of some interest because the attorney for the holder of the note made a curious attempt to adapt the renvoi theory to his case. The term renvoi is used as a convenient descriptive …