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Negligence-Res Ipsa Loquitur-Presumption Of Management From Ownership-Unattended Automobile
Negligence-Res Ipsa Loquitur-Presumption Of Management From Ownership-Unattended Automobile
Michigan Law Review
After the sound of a crash, the defendant's motortruck was found on the plaintiff's porch. Held, the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur was applicable.
Wills-Loose Sheets As A Will
Michigan Law Review
Testatrix's will contained twenty-eight sheets of correspondence paper, each complete in itself and not physically bound together. When presented for probate, the last sheet held only an attestation clause and the signatures of testatrix and witnesses; each of the others was, signed by testatrix; and the whole group were consecutively numbered. The attesting witnesses, employed at the bank with which testatrix did business, identified the writing on all twenty-eight sheets as that of testatrix, but could not say that these very sheets were present when the last was executed. They testified there was a bundle of similar sheets, and one …
Witnesses-Refreshing Memory-Past Recollection
Witnesses-Refreshing Memory-Past Recollection
Michigan Law Review
Action on a claimed oral renewal of a burglary insurance policy. Nearly six months after the alleged renewal W made an affidavit stating that she heard defendant's agent tell plaintiff that plaintiff's policy had been renewed. This affidavit was drawn up by plaintiff's attorney. On the trial eight years later W was unable to recall any such conversation and the affidavit did not refresh her memory. The court over objection admitted the affidavit itself in evidence. Held, since the affidavit was not made at or near the time of the event recorded, and was drawn up by one of …
Aviation-Trespass-Nuisance
Michigan Law Review
Land-owners sought to enjoin flight over their property as a trespass and nuisance; and to enjoin as a nuisance the use of the adjoining field as a base from which to make such flights. Held, injunction denied because of insufficient evidence of injury. Flight at 500 feet or more was impliedly authorized by the statute forbidding flight lit less than that attitude over buildings or persons. Mass. Acts, 1922, ch. 534, sec. 1 sub-sec. 55. As to occasional flights over unoccupied brush land at a height of about 100 feet in landing or taking off, injunctive relief was denied …
Evidence--Physician-Patient Privilege--Express And Implied Waiver
Evidence--Physician-Patient Privilege--Express And Implied Waiver
Michigan Law Review
Defendant's intestate applied for insurance with "plaintiff, expressly waiving, for himself and beneficiaries, the privilege of excluding testimony of physicians who had then attended him or might do so later. The policy lapsed, but the insured, falsely representing that he was in good health and had consulted no doctor for any cause, secured a reinstatement. He died six months later. Plaintiff sued for cancellation, and defendant objected to the testimony of physicians who had been consulted before and after the reinstatement. Held, the testimony was admissible, since the privilege was waived; also the mere fact that there were consultations …
The Supreme Court's Construction Of The Self-Incrimination Clause, Edward S. Corwin
The Supreme Court's Construction Of The Self-Incrimination Clause, Edward S. Corwin
Michigan Law Review
The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution reads as follows: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized." The so-called "self-incrimination clause" of Amendment V reads as follows: "No person * * * shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."
Evidence-Prior Inconsistent Statement-Corroborative Testimony
Evidence-Prior Inconsistent Statement-Corroborative Testimony
Michigan Law Review
W, a witness for the prosecution in a murder trial, testified that he had known the defendant about five years before, and was sure he was one of the two men who fired the fatal shots. On cross examination he was asked whether or not he had testified at a preliminary hearing to the effect that he had never known or seen the man before the date of the murder. He admitted the inconsistency, but on redirect examination was permitted to explain that he had not properly understood the question put to him at the preliminary hearing. The prosecution was …
Witnesses-Immunity From Self-Incrimination-Statute Requiring Testimony That Would Subject Witness To A Penalty
Michigan Law Review
Acts 1921, No. 203 of Vermont required a disclosure from all persons convicted of intoxication as to the persons from whom the liquor was obtained. The petitioner was convicted of intoxication and on his refusal to disclose the person from whom he obtained the liquor was adjudged to be in contempt and committed to jail. Held, petitioner was in unlawful restraint and should be discharged, as the law requiring the disclosure was unconstitutional, article ten of the state constitution providing that no person could be compelled to give evidence against himself. In the light of Acts 1921, No. 204 …