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Contracts - Fraud - Implied Representation Of Solvency Jan 1934

Contracts - Fraud - Implied Representation Of Solvency

Michigan Law Review

Defendant, a wholesale grocer, had been losing steadily for months by selling below cost, and had assets of $83,000 against liabilities of $140,000 on Nov. 21, 1929. On that date he accepted a 90-day trade acceptance drawn by claimant for cases of tomato paste which he had ordered, and which claimant now seeks to reclaim on the ground of fraud. On December 3 defendant obtained the goods, and the next day went into involuntary bankruptcy. Held, that the buyer's promise to pay implies belief in reasonable ability to pay, and that concealment of belief to the contrary is fraud …

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State Taxation Of Interstate Motor Carriers, Paul G. Kauper Dec 1933

State Taxation Of Interstate Motor Carriers, Paul G. Kauper

Michigan Law Review

Though the Supreme Court has never had occasion to express its views as to the gasoline tax in its relation to interstate motor carriers (see first instalment of this article), it has been confronted with a series of cases involving automobile registration taxes. Every State today imposes such taxes. A brief discussion of the theory and nature of such taxes will aid in understanding their legal consequences.

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Bills And Notes - Forged Indorsement - Liability Of Collecting Bank To Drawer Dec 1933

Bills And Notes - Forged Indorsement - Liability Of Collecting Bank To Drawer

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff drew a check payable to V. It was stolen by H, plaintiff's employee, and delivered to a confederate who forged V's indorsement and deposited the check in the defendant bank which collected on the instrument. Plaintiff was reimbursed by H's bonding company, and then sought to recover the amount of the check from the defendant. Held, that though plaintiff could ordinarily recover the proceeds of its stolen, undelivered check from the collecting bank, recovery here would be denied because plaintiff had already been reimbursed for its loss. Washington Mechanics' Savings Bank v. District Title …

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National Industrial Recovery Act - President's Re-Employment Agreement - Injunction By Labor Union Dec 1933

National Industrial Recovery Act - President's Re-Employment Agreement - Injunction By Labor Union

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a Wisconsin labor union, was granted a temporary injunction restraining defendant shoe company, a party to the President's Re-employment Agreement, from "further interference with the right of its employes to organize into unions of their own free will and choice" and from "interfering with . . . the freedom of its employes in the designation of representatives of their own choice for the purpose of bargaining collectively" with the company. The court decided that defendant had violated its agreement with the President to comply with section 7 (a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act. This last was based on …

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