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Labor Law - National Labor Relations Act - Jurisdiction Of The National Labor Relations Board, John C. Griffin Jun 1939

Labor Law - National Labor Relations Act - Jurisdiction Of The National Labor Relations Board, John C. Griffin

Michigan Law Review

Respondent, employing about sixty persons, was the sole owner of a garment-tailoring concern in New Jersey. His only business was with the Lee Company, a New York firm, that sold finished goods. There was no financial affiliation between them. The Lee Company purchased the cloth and caused it to be delivered to respondent. Respondent tailored it and delivered the finished product to a representative of the Lee Company at respondent's plant. This representative sent it back to New York in Lee Company trucks. Title to the cloth remained throughout in the Lee Company. Held, Justices McReynolds and Butler dissenting, …


Constitutional Law - Taxation - Curtailment Of Intergovernmental Tax Immunities, Allan A. Rubin May 1939

Constitutional Law - Taxation - Curtailment Of Intergovernmental Tax Immunities, Allan A. Rubin

Michigan Law Review

In the recent well-publicized decision of Graves v. O'Keefe, the United States Supreme Court, following a path adequately cleared by Helvering v. Gerhardt, again enlarged the scope of the governmental powers to impose non-discriminatory taxes. In so doing, the Court clarified the fundamental principles underlying intergovernmental tax immunities by eliminating inconsistencies and resolving confusion persisting in this field of law. The Gerhardt case had sustained the imposition of a federal income tax on the salaries of employees of the Port of New York Authority, a state instrumentality created by New York and New Jersey. But it had not …


Torts - Liability Of Landlord For Injury To Property Of Tenant's Customer, Arthur P. Boynton Mar 1939

Torts - Liability Of Landlord For Injury To Property Of Tenant's Customer, Arthur P. Boynton

Michigan Law Review

A customer of the tenant sued the landlord for damage, to fur coats left with the tenant in the normal course of his business, from water, due to a leaky condition of the roof of the building which was in the control of landlord. Held, that it was the duty of the landlord to exercise reasonable care to keep the roof in reasonable repair not only as regards the safety of persons in the building but also as respects property lawfully there; that this duty was not performed and the damage resulted therefrom. Whelkin Coat Co. v. Long Beach …