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Constitutional Law - Import-Export Clause - Power Of State To Tax Foreign Imports Supplying Current Operating Needs, Stevan Uzelac Jun 1959

Constitutional Law - Import-Export Clause - Power Of State To Tax Foreign Imports Supplying Current Operating Needs, Stevan Uzelac

Michigan Law Review

Appellant imported from five countries iron ore which was stored at its processing plant and drawn upon to fill the current operational needs of the plant. When the ore arrived it was originally stored in stock piles containing a three-month supply. As needed, ores were conveyed from the stock piles to "stock bins," holding one or two days' supply and located in close proximity to the plant, from which the ores were used in the operation of the plant. The State of Ohio collected a personal property tax upon all the imported ore. In a companion case petitioner imported from …


Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - Power Of States To Levy Net Income Tax On Businesses Engaged In Soley Interstate Commerce, John C. Peters S.Ed. Apr 1959

Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - Power Of States To Levy Net Income Tax On Businesses Engaged In Soley Interstate Commerce, John C. Peters S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Appellant, an Iowa corporation, maintained a sales office in Minnesota and employed salesmen who solicited orders from dealers within that state, though all of its sales contracts were made at the corporation's home office in Iowa. In accordance with a Minnesota statute, a state net income tax, fairly apportioned to the state's share of the corporation's interstate business, was levied upon appellant. In a suit brought by the state to collect this tax, appellant contended that the statute as applied violated the commerce and due process clauses of the Federal Constitution because it taxed the net proceeds of a business …


Contracts - Statute Of Frauds - Effect On Oral Exclusive Distributorship Agreement For Indefinite Duration, Robert Segar Mar 1959

Contracts - Statute Of Frauds - Effect On Oral Exclusive Distributorship Agreement For Indefinite Duration, Robert Segar

Michigan Law Review

In 1935 plaintiff brewery made an oral agreement of no definite duration by which defendant and his father, as partners, were given the exclusive right to distribute its beer. Defendant, changing from one partnership to another, complied with various wishes of the plaintiff such as furnishing warehousing, purchasing uniform amounts of beer throughout the year although seasonal demands varied, dissolving the second partnership in 1950, discontinuing distribution of a rival beer in 1954, and hiring a sales promotion man in June 1954; the latter three actions taken on plaintiff's assurance that he would continue defendant's distributorship. In July 1954 plaintiff, …


Specific Performance In France And Germany, John P. Dawson Feb 1959

Specific Performance In France And Germany, John P. Dawson

Michigan Law Review

Edgar Durfee studied long and closely the subject of specific performance. He taught it for many years, wrote about it and planned to ·write more. He conceived it broadly, as he did every subject that ever had his attention, but he had a lively interest in details, including very technical details. Long before others and much more than most, he saw the importance of our remedial system both in shaping law and as a reflection of its larger purposes. All those who learned from him will remember as long as memory lasts the insight he gave and the hidden meanings …


Brewster, Jr.: Antitrust And American Business Abroad, And Fugate: Foreign Commerce And The Antitrust Laws, Kenneth S. Carlston Jan 1959

Brewster, Jr.: Antitrust And American Business Abroad, And Fugate: Foreign Commerce And The Antitrust Laws, Kenneth S. Carlston

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Antitrust and American Business Abroad. By Kingman Brewster, Jr., and Foreign Commerce and the Antitrust Laws. By Wilbur L. Fugate.