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Conditional Sales -Tort Liability Of Vendor For Recaption Of Property Conditionally Sold
Conditional Sales -Tort Liability Of Vendor For Recaption Of Property Conditionally Sold
Michigan Law Review
Defendant transferred a piano to plaintiff under a conditional sales contract retaining the right in case of any default in payment "to peacefully or forcibly, and without process of law, enter the premises where said property is . . . and to take . . . possession thereof." Plaintiff de-faulted in payment. Employees of defendant, entering the house of plaintiff in his absence and without notice, removed the piano. Held, plaintiff may not recover for a conversion, but may recover for a breaking and entering whether defendant's agents broke into the house with actual force, or mere technical force, …
Constitutional Law -Validity Of State Mortgage Moratorium Statutes - Effect Of Emergency
Constitutional Law -Validity Of State Mortgage Moratorium Statutes - Effect Of Emergency
Michigan Law Review
A Maryland statute provided that mortgagees holding less than a 25 per cent interest in a mortgage could not have recourse to summary remedies for sale of mortgaged property during an emergency period declared to exist until June 1, 1935. Plaintiff, the holder of such an interest in a mortgage providing for summary proceedings for sale upon default, had the right to foreclose in this manner, mortgagor having defaulted, if the statute did not bar his action. Held, the remedies denied were so interwoven with the rights contracted for that the abolition of such remedies impaired the right, and …
Bills And Notes-Alteration By Collateral Written Agreement
Bills And Notes-Alteration By Collateral Written Agreement
Michigan Law Review
Defendant was accommodation indorser on two of four notes executed at the same time with different maturity dates. As part of the same transaction, but unknown to the defendant, the maker, two other indorsers, and the payee, plaintiff in the cause, entered into an agreement in writing whereby the maturity of the unpaid notes would be accelerated on default as to any due. Held, in, an action on the notes, that instruments simultaneously executed and referring to the same subject matter are to be construed together, and the effect of such integration here was to bring about an alteration …