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Torts - Liability Of Parent For Acts Of Infant
Torts - Liability Of Parent For Acts Of Infant
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, nursemaid, engaged to look after defendant's young daughter, was bitten by the child. She sued the father for her in jury under Article 2318 of the Louisiana Civil Code. In the district court an exception of no cause of action (the equivalent of a general demurrer) was sustained. The exception was based mainly on the grounds that there was no allegation that the father could have prevented the tort; that there was no allegation that the child had previously exhibited a vicious temper, or that defendant had knowledge of such vicious temper; and that the nursemaid had assumed such …
Torts - Negligence - Liability For Damages Accruing To Another By Act Done To Save One's Own Property
Michigan Law Review
Defendant was negligent in allowing a wooden barge to be loaded with crude oil without adequate fire protection. After the ship had been set afire by lightning, defendant had it cast adrift to save its wharf from destruction. The floating vessel later damaged plaintiff's property two miles distant. Held, defendant committed an actionable wrong. Swan-Finch Oil Corp. et al. v. Warner-Quinlan Co., (N. J. 1933) 167 Atl. 211.
Legal Problems In National Merchandising, Richard Ford
Legal Problems In National Merchandising, Richard Ford
Michigan Law Review
An interstate sales organization encounters an infinite number of problems of legal tactics, some of which recur with great frequency, and are more or less common to every industry. For discussion in this paper the writer has selected a few such problems, chiefly from the electric refrigeration business; these are presented in the belief that they are typical of many lines of national merchandising.
Fixtures - Rights Of Conditional Vendors Against Mortgagees Of Realty
Fixtures - Rights Of Conditional Vendors Against Mortgagees Of Realty
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sought to foreclose a mortgage with an after-acquired property clause on an industrial plant in which were installed various pieces of machinery sold by the defendant vendors under a conditional sale to the mortgagor after the execution of the realty mortgage. The machinery was so attached as to become fixtures and was evidently necessary to the continuance of the enterprise, but was removable without damage to the building as it stood before the machinery was installed. It was held that the conditional vendors could remove the machinery. People's Savings & Trust Co. v. Munsert, (Wis. 1933) 249 N. …
Taxation -Taxability Of Inter Vivos Trust With Power Of Revocation Reserved
Taxation -Taxability Of Inter Vivos Trust With Power Of Revocation Reserved
Michigan Law Review
In 1918 decedent established a trust fund in favor of his daughter, reserving the power to alter or modify the deed in favor of anyone except himself but retaining neither the life income nor any interest in the res. Later decedent revoked the deed and re-established the trust in favor of the daughter's two children. On decedent's death the Commissioner of Internal Revenue included the value of the trust res in decedent's gross estate for purposes of taxation as provided by the Revenue Act of 1926 § 302(d). Held, that the tax was not repugnant to the Fifth …
Equity - Election Of Remedies - Proof Of Claim In Receivership
Equity - Election Of Remedies - Proof Of Claim In Receivership
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sold certain chattels under a conditional sales agreement to a partnership which later went into receivership. The purchase price not having been paid, plaintiff filed a general claim with the receiver, which was allowed. Six months later, no dividend having been paid, plaintiff filed a petition to have the general claim withdrawn and a preferred one substituted, based on the title-retaining contract. The court held that by filing and allowance of the general claim plaintiff made a final election between inconsistent remedies which barred rescission and restitution of the specific property. The court held that the inexperience of plaintiff's …
Bills And Notes - Incorporation By Reference - Clause In Mortgage Limiting Bondholder's Right To Sue On Bond
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a holder, sued for the principal of and interest on matured bearer bonds which were part of an issue secured by a trust mortgage. Each bond, which was otherwise negotiable, recited that it was secured by a mortgage, "to which indenture reference is hereby made for a statement of the rights of the holders of said bonds." The mortgage provided that all rights of action on the bonds were vested in the trustee and that no bondholder could sue on the primary indebtedness until he had fulfilled certain prerequisites relative to giving the trustee an opportunity to sue. These …
Contracts - Fraud - Implied Representation Of Solvency
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 …