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University of Michigan Law School

Michigan Law Review

1941

Georgia

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Bankruptcy - Debts Not Affected By A Discharge - Goods Purchased When Insolvent With No Intent To Pay, William C. Wetherbee Jr. Mar 1941

Bankruptcy - Debts Not Affected By A Discharge - Goods Purchased When Insolvent With No Intent To Pay, William C. Wetherbee Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Respondent was suing the debtor in a municipal court of Georgia for goods purchased on account. When the debtor was ajudicated a bankrupt, the respondent changed his action from contract to tort by alleging that the bankrupt had purchased the goods when insolvent with no intent to pay for them. A judgment was obtained by respondent and the bankrupt subsequently received a discharge in bankruptcy. The bankrupt now asks that the respondent be enjoined from further proceeding to enforce this judgment by garnishment or in any other manner. Respondent claims that the judgment was not discharged since it was a …


Constitutional Law - Regulation Of Small Business, Alfred G. Ellick Jr. Mar 1941

Constitutional Law - Regulation Of Small Business, Alfred G. Ellick Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Ever since the development of the guild system the small tradesman or shopkeeper has attempted in various ways to reduce the number of his competitors. The time-honored method, in theory at least, has been to give better service for less money. The more modern method is to select a delegation from the trade itself whose duty it will be to proceed to the state capitol, there to urge the passage of "protective legislation." As a result, legislators have found themselves beseiged by lobbyists who show altruistic concern for the health, safety, and welfare of the general public. Strangely enough, the …


Workmen's Compensation - Injury Or Death Due To Existing Disease Aggravated By Ordinary Work., Michigan Law Review Feb 1941

Workmen's Compensation - Injury Or Death Due To Existing Disease Aggravated By Ordinary Work., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

An employee who suffered from high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries was employed by defendant. After helping another workman unload six hundred sacks of cement weighing ninety-four pounds each in about forty minutes, the employee became ill and suffered a stroke which permanently paralyzed his left limbs. Held, compensation allowed under the Workmen's Compensation Act in spite of the fact that the employee was doing normal work of his employment in the usual way, and that he was at the time in an abnormal physical condition. Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Griggs, 190 Ga. 277, 9 …