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University of Michigan Law School

Journal

1918

State courts

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Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Willard T. Barbour, Victor H. Lane Dec 1918

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Willard T. Barbour, Victor H. Lane

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The Writ of Prohibition - Procedural Delay - A disheartening recrudescence of procedural red-tape is found in a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio. A contest arose over the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission to fix telephone rates in Cleveland. The Commission was engaged in a determination as to the reasonableness of a schedule of rates filed by the telephone company, when a petition was filed in the Common Pleas Court for an injunction against the charging of rates other than those fixed by a city ordinance.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Building Restrictions - Single Private Dwelling on One Lot - What Is One Lot? Land was platted into sixty foot lots and conveyed from time to time to various purchasers subject to restriction, inter alia, that "There shall be nothing but a single private dwelling with the necessary outbuildings erected on each lot" Defendant became the owner of the westerly ten feet of lot 5o and the easterly forty feet of lot 51; the remaining twenty feet of lot 51 and the whole of lot 52 adjoining lot 51 on the other side became the property of plaintiff. Defendant being …


Note And Comment, Raymond Archibald Fox, John R. Rood, Joseph H. Drake, Edwin C. Goddard Apr 1918

Note And Comment, Raymond Archibald Fox, John R. Rood, Joseph H. Drake, Edwin C. Goddard

Michigan Law Review

When the Descendants of a Predeceased Legatee Will Not Take Under a Statute of Substitution - There are in most states statutes declaring that if a person named as legatee dies before the testator, his descendants shall take his share. Downing v. Nicholson, 115 Ia. 493; Strong v. Smith, 84 Mich. 567; x8 A. & E. ENCYC. Ol LAw, 2d Ed. 755. A common type is such as is found in the Civil Code of California, sec. 1310, viz.: "When any estate is devised or bequeathed to any child or other relation of the testator and the devisee or legatee …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy - Dichargeability of Tort Judgment - Plaintiff recovered judgment against X for damages caused by X's negligent operation of his automobile. Afterwards X obtained a discharge in bankruptcy. Held, that the judgment was thereby discharged. Jefferson Transfer Co. v. Hull, (Wis. 1918), I66 N. W. i.


Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood Mar 1918

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

The National Army Act and the Administration of the "Draft" - In Aryer v. U. S., and five similar cases attacking the validity of the socalled National Army Act of May 18, 1917, Public Statutes, No. 12, 65th Congress, c. -, - Stat. -. ) the Supreme Court unanimously sustained the validity of the Act so far as attacked. The contention that compulsory military service as provided in the Act is contrary to our fundamental conception of the nature of citizenship, and that such compulsion is repugnant to a free government and in conflict with the guaranties of the Constitution …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bills and Notes - Dishonor by Nonpayment - Marginal Memoranda for Partial Payments - Suit by the holder on the following note: "$100.00. Hampden, N. D., Sept. 2, 1909. "On or before Sept. 2, 191o, after date, I promise to pay to the order of the Sageng Threshing Machine Company, of Minneapolis, Minn., one hundred dollars. "Value received, with interest at 6 per cent. "[Signed] ALBERT BENSON. "$25 will be paid Nov. ist, 1909. "$25 will be paid Jan. Ist, I910."


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Constitutional Law - Taxation - Public Purpose - Rev. St. Me. 1903, c. 4, sec. 87, authorized any municipality to establish a permanent wood, coal, and fuel yard for the purpose of selling wood, coal, and fuel to its inhabitants at cost. Held, not to violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Jones v. City of Portland (U. S., 1917), 38 Sup. Ct Rep. 112.


Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Edgar N. Durfee Feb 1918

Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Edgar N. Durfee

Michigan Law Review

Inducing Breach of Agreement by Employees Not to Join a Labor Union, in Order to Compel Unionization of Plaintiff's Business - In Hitchnan Coal & Coke Compazy v. John Mitchell, et al., (Dec. 10, 1917), 38 Sup. Ct. 6s, the novel question was presented to the Supreme Court of the United States, as to whether or not members of a labor Union could be enjoined from conspiring to persuade, and persuading, without violence or show of violence, plaintiff's employees, not members of the Union,-and who were working for plaintiff not for a specified time, but under an agreement not to …


Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Ralph W. Aigler, James William Thomas, John B. Waite, Charles Lott Kaufmann Jan 1918

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Ralph W. Aigler, James William Thomas, John B. Waite, Charles Lott Kaufmann

Michigan Law Review

Power of the US Supreme Court to Enforce Judgments Against States - In the year 1460, when the perogatives of sovereignty or at least of the Crown were asserted in England much more vigorously than they are today, "the Counseill of the right high and mighty Prynce Richard Duc of York, brought into the Parliament Chambre a writyng conteignyng the clayme and title of the right, that the seid Duc pretended unto the Corones of Englond and of Fraunce, and Lordship of Trelond, and the same writyng delyvered to the Right Reverent Fader in God George Bishop of Excestre, Chaunceller …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bailment - Artisan's Lien - Selling Automobile Tires - Appellee sought to enforce a lien on three touring cars for the price of eight casings sold and fitted on them by him. No charge was made for taking off the old casings and putting on the new ones. The lien was based on the statute giving a lien to wheelwrights who performed work and labor on carriages, wagons, farm irhplements, and other articles for such work and labor, and for all materials furnished by them and used in such product or repairs. AcTs or ARKANSAS, i903, p. 26o. Held, (one …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney and Client - Contracts Restricting Settlement by Client - A contingent fee agreement made by an attorney with his client provided that the attorney should have a lien for his services on the amount received by reason of the claim, and also that neither party should compromise the claim without the consent of the other. The plaintiff brought suit for the amount of his services against the defendants in the prior suit, who admitted receiving notice of the above agreement. Held, an agreement prohibiting a client from settling a case without the attorney's consent is void as against public …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. Waite, Evans Holbrook, John R. Rood Jan 1918

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. Waite, Evans Holbrook, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

Injuries Arising "Out of" an Employment - An employee's duties take him into the streets where he is injured by being run into by an automobile or other vehicle; has he ground for recovery of compensation under the usual WOltM4a,'eS COMPENSATION AcT providing for an award for injuries "arising out of and in the course of his employment"? Since he was in the street in pursuance of his duties and not in going to or from work, it is clear that the injury was one arising in the "course of" the employment. But did it arise "out of' the employment?


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Animals - Injuries by Animals at Large - In an action for damages for injuries sustained by the kick of a horse, the petition alleged that for many days the defendant carelessly and negligently permitted a horse owned by him to run loose on the streets unattended, and that the plaintiff while playing about was kicked by the horse. On demurrer, held, no cause of action stated because no allegation that the owner knew the horse was vicious. Brady v. Str.aub, (Ky. Ct. of App. 1917), 197 S. W. 938.


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Abraham Jacob Levin Jan 1918

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Abraham Jacob Levin

Michigan Law Review

Notes on recent cases and letters to the Law Review.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Accretion - Title to New Land - Certain lots in Section 31 bounded on one side by a river and on the opposite side by a section line were slowly eaten away and submerged by the action of the water. By this process the river was carried beyond the section line into Section 3o onto the land of P. After a time the river again shifted and gradually restored P's land and built new land in Section 31 where the above mentioned lots had been. As against D who had acquired tax deeds to the new land in Section 31. …