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1938

Injuries

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Sales - Implied Warranty - Explosive In Cigar, James W. Mehaffy Dec 1938

Sales - Implied Warranty - Explosive In Cigar, James W. Mehaffy

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff purchased cigars from a retail merchant. The cigars were sold under a trade name and when purchased from a wholesaler by the retailer were wrapped in cellophane, and were sold to the plaintiff while still in the original wrapper. One of the cigars contained a firecracker, which exploded when plaintiff lighted the cigar, causing substantial injury. Held, that the plaintiff can recover from the retailer. Dow Drug Co. v. Nieman, 57 Ohio App. 190, 13 N. E. (2d) 130 (1936).


Negligence - Whether Compliance With Statutory Crossing Regulations Constitutes Due Care On Part Of Railroad, Anthony L. Dividio Nov 1938

Negligence - Whether Compliance With Statutory Crossing Regulations Constitutes Due Care On Part Of Railroad, Anthony L. Dividio

Michigan Law Review

A series of Minnesota statutes, passed from time to time regulating the conduct of railroads, were united in the laws of 1925. Among other things, this act empowers the Railroad and Warehouse Commission to prescribe and order safety devices at crossings. The plaintiff was injured when the car in which he was riding hit defendant's train, which was already over the crossing. The evidence showed that the street sloped steeply toward the track, but the track was somewhat elevated from the street level at the crossing, so that the lights from the automobile could not shine on the train. Nor …


Negligence - Overcrowding Of Automobile As Contributory Negligence Preventing Recovery By Guest, Brackley Shaw Feb 1938

Negligence - Overcrowding Of Automobile As Contributory Negligence Preventing Recovery By Guest, Brackley Shaw

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, an eighteen-year-old girl, was riding in the front seat of a Ford coupe with three young men on a clear night. The car, driven by defendant, was going sixty to sixty-five miles per hour and in rounding a curve struck another car. Plaintiff was thrown out and injured. The driver of the second car was joined as codefendant. Held, when more than three persons occupy the front seat of a car, overcrowding it and hampering the driver, those overcrowding it are guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law; and where the accident was caused by lack …


Torts - Liability Of Landlord To Tenant For Disrepair, Michigan Law Review Feb 1938

Torts - Liability Of Landlord To Tenant For Disrepair, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A landlord made an oral, month-to-month lease of premises to one Harris, who occupied the premises as a beauty shop in which he employed his wife. Both at the time of the letting and subsequently, an agent of the landlord agreed to repair a defective cellar stairway, but failed to do so. The lessee's wife was injured by the collapse of the stairway; thereupon, the tenant and his wife sued the landlord. A verdict was directed against the tenant and judgment non obstante veredicto was entered against the wife. The wife appealed. Held, even assuming the wife not contributorily …