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Master And Servant-Parent And Child-Liability Of Master When Servant Negligently Injures His Own Son Dec 1930

Master And Servant-Parent And Child-Liability Of Master When Servant Negligently Injures His Own Son

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff was injured through the negligence of his father who was employed by the defendant. The parent was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the injury. Held, plaintiff could recover from his father's employer, even though the child could not have sued his father. Chase v. New Haven Waste Material Corporation (Conn. 1930) 150 Atl. 107.

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Libel - Plaintlff's Portrait-Story Concerning Another Dec 1930

Libel - Plaintlff's Portrait-Story Concerning Another

Michigan Law Review

Defendant published in a newspaper the picture of the plaintiff, Alta Woolf, under the headline, "Sued for Balm," and above a caption to the effect that "Mrs. Ruth Felgenauer (above) 11002 Nelson Ave." had been made defendant in an alienation suit. To the plaintiff's libel action, defendant demurred. Held, the trial court was correct in sustaining the demurrer because, in its entirety, the publication was not calculated to lead third persons to believe that it referred to plaintiff. Woolf v. Scripps Pub. Co. (Ohio, Ct. App. 1930) 172 N.E. 389.

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Table Of Cases Discussed, Anon Nov 1930

Table Of Cases Discussed, Anon

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Limitation Of Actions-Effect Of Fraudulent Concealment Nov 1930

Limitation Of Actions-Effect Of Fraudulent Concealment

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff sued in equity for a money judgment on defendant's promissory notes. Defendant had fraudulently represented that her husband's estate was liable on these notes, inducing plaintiff to sue the estate and thus delay for more than six years in starting suit against defendant. Plaintiff had sued defendant at law on the notes, defendant had pleaded the statute of limitations, and plaintiff had discontinued. Held, that plaintiff could recover a money judgment in equity, since the remedy at law was barred by the statute of limitations. Dodds v. McColgan (N. Y. App. Div., 1930) 241 N. Y. S. 584.

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Quasi-Contracts-Dutiful Intervention-Discharge Of Public Officer's Duty Nov 1930

Quasi-Contracts-Dutiful Intervention-Discharge Of Public Officer's Duty

Michigan Law Review

By statute in Montana the boards of county commissioners were ordered to cause such highways as were necessary for the public welfare to be "laid out, recorded, opened" and maintained. A highway was laid out through the plaintiff's land in 1903, but the county commissioners refused to continue constructing it though requested to do so by the plaintiff, instead compelling him to remove the fences on his property. His entire land being thus thrown open to the public, he constructed the road himself in 1926, with the knowledge of the commissioners, who on its completion immediately accepted it but refused …

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Recent Cases, S. L. Jun 1930