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Election Of Remedies - Deficiency Decree As Bar To Subsequent Suit On Debt, Donald H. Larmee
Election Of Remedies - Deficiency Decree As Bar To Subsequent Suit On Debt, Donald H. Larmee
Michigan Law Review
After foreclosure in Florida of a purchase money mortgage on Florida land, the mortgagee filed a claim for the deficiency against the estate of one of the co-mortgagors, who was a permanent resident of Michigan, and who had been served only by publication in the foreclosure suit. In the foreclosure proceedings the mortgagee had prayed for a deficiency decree, and the Florida court had retained jurisdiction for that purpose, after ordering the sale. The mortgagee had taken no further steps in that proceeding. Held, the Florida law was controlling, and that by Florida statutes, as construed by the courts …
Trusts-Interest Required To Support Suit For Protection Of Res
Trusts-Interest Required To Support Suit For Protection Of Res
Michigan Law Review
The deceased had established a trust making the trust company and one Percy S. Peck co-trustees, and Peck was also made one of several beneficiaries. The will provided that Peck should have a general power of appointment by will over the corpus of the estate, and that in default of the exercise of such power, it should go to his issue if living. The plaintiffs are the issue of Peck, who is still alive. The trustees made certain investments which the plaintiffs claim injure the corpus of the trust, for which they ask that the transactions be declared illegal and …
Municipal Corporations-Standards Required In Licensing Ordinances
Municipal Corporations-Standards Required In Licensing Ordinances
Michigan Law Review
Defendant appealed from conviction for operating a used auto business without obtaining a license for such business under a city ordinance requiring same to be granted by the city commission if in its opinion applicant was a proper and suitable person, the place to be used was proper, having in mind the nature and character of the business and possibility of commission of crime, and the sanitary facilities thereon were proper. There was no specific legislative grant for passage of such ordinance. Defendant's application was rejected by the commission mainly because of lack of proper sanitary facilities. Held, standards …
Adjoining Landowners-Injury From Mining Operations-Right To Prospective Damages
Adjoining Landowners-Injury From Mining Operations-Right To Prospective Damages
Michigan Law Review
Defendant corporation was conducting its mining operations some distance from plaintiff's land. Plaintiff brought this action to recover for injury to his residence caused by subsidence. The judgment in the trial court represented both actual and prospective damages. On appeal it was held that plaintiff may recover only the cost of repairs. O'Donnell v. Oliver Iron Mining Co., 273 Mich. 27,262 N. W. 728 (1935).
Easements-Implied Grant-Right Of Way-Discontinuous
Easements-Implied Grant-Right Of Way-Discontinuous
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff's testator owned a tract of land on which there were two houses. In 1897 he sold one house, which came to the defendant by various mesne conveyances. Defendant's property was narrow, the sole means of access to the rear of the house being a driveway, wholly situated on the land retained, now owned by the plaintiff. From the time of its erection all occupants of defendant's dwelling had used the driveway as a means of hauling coal and wood to the rear of the house. Plaintiff sought to restrain this use and defendants claimed an implied easement, by grant, …
Assignments -Validity Of Gratuitous Written Assignment
Assignments -Validity Of Gratuitous Written Assignment
Michigan Law Review
Deceased took defendant, his son, to a notary and there made and acknowledged written assignments of three mortgages he owned. He handed these assignments to defendant, saying "I give you these. Put them in the safety-deposit box." Defendant went away with the assignments which reappear only after the father's death; they were found in an envelope, marked with defendant's name in deceased's hand, in a safety-deposit box owned jointly by deceased and defendant. Deceased always retained possession and enjoyment of the actual mortgage instruments. Plaintiff, another son, claims these mortgages should be part of deceased's estate. The court held that …