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Antitrust Act--Discriminatory Practices--Defenses Available to Charge of Discrimination in Furnishing Services and Facilities

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Bankruptcy--Priority of Wages--Employer's Contributions to Welfare Funds Are Not Entitled to Priority as Wages Due to Work

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Constitutional Law--Social Security Benefits--Automatic Suspension of Deported Person's Social Security Benefits a Denial of Due Process

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Constitutional Law--Union Shop Agreement Under Railway Labor Act Violates Constitutional Rights of Employees

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Corporations--Securities and Exchange Act of 1934--Liability of Director for Profits on Stock Acquired Prior to Election as Corporate Official

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Damages--Quasi Contract--Exemplary Damages in Quasi Contract When Defendant is Guilty of Fraud

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Evidence--Other Crimes--Admissibility of Evidence …

Labor Law And Workmen's Compensation--1959 Tennessee Survey, Paul H. Sanders, J. Gilmer Bowman, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

What is the meaning of the term "actual cash value" in the standard fire policy? The middle section of the court of appeals, following a prior Tennessee case and the weight of authority, held that the phrase is synonomous with "market value" only where the goods are readily replaceable in a current market. Where there is no market, or where the market value is inadequate to properly indemnify the insured, "actual cash value" means the "'value to the owner' or the loss he suffers in being deprived of the goods." Since the goods involved in this case were personal effects, …