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Bankruptcy - Debts Not Affected By A Discharge - Goods Purchased When Insolvent With No Intent To Pay, William C. Wetherbee Jr. Mar 1941

Bankruptcy - Debts Not Affected By A Discharge - Goods Purchased When Insolvent With No Intent To Pay, William C. Wetherbee Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Respondent was suing the debtor in a municipal court of Georgia for goods purchased on account. When the debtor was ajudicated a bankrupt, the respondent changed his action from contract to tort by alleging that the bankrupt had purchased the goods when insolvent with no intent to pay for them. A judgment was obtained by respondent and the bankrupt subsequently received a discharge in bankruptcy. The bankrupt now asks that the respondent be enjoined from further proceeding to enforce this judgment by garnishment or in any other manner. Respondent claims that the judgment was not discharged since it was a …


Fraudulent Conveyances - Executory Consideration As "Fair Consideration" Under The Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, Robert Kneeland Feb 1941

Fraudulent Conveyances - Executory Consideration As "Fair Consideration" Under The Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, Robert Kneeland

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a purchaser of mortgaged realty, claimed that there had been a series of conveyances of this property originating with a remote grantor, fraudulent as to said grantor's creditors. At the time plaintiff learned of this, he had already paid taxes on the property and paid $4605 on the purchase price, leaving a balance of $2986 due on his contract. Since, allegedly, plaintiff would have been subject to an action of the creditors to have the conveyance to him set aside/ plaintiff sought to join all creditors and defrauders in an attempt to clear the title, or, if the transaction …


Trusts - Spendthrift Trusts - Beneficial Interest Held Not Attachable To Make Good Liability As Trustee, W. Wallace Kent Mar 1940

Trusts - Spendthrift Trusts - Beneficial Interest Held Not Attachable To Make Good Liability As Trustee, W. Wallace Kent

Michigan Law Review

Janet Jones was an inactive trustee and one of the beneficiaries of a spendthrift trust. Because of lack of good judgment on the part of her co-trustee, and without any moral fault on her part, Janet was charged with liability for a large sum. Her surety, who paid the succeeding trustee, took an assignment of the rights of the trust estate against Janet Jones and demanded that the trustee pay to it all the income, past, present and future, which the trust instrument gave to such beneficiary. The trustee brought this action for instructions. Held, as the trust estate …


Corporations - Derivative Suits - Insolvency As A Bar, Edmund O'Hare Nov 1939

Corporations - Derivative Suits - Insolvency As A Bar, Edmund O'Hare

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, stockholder in defendant bank, brought a derivative suit against the bank's directors to recover moneys allegedly wrongfully appropriated by them from the bank's assets. Before the commencement of the suit the bank had become insolvent and was in the process of liquidation. Held, the directors' motion to dismiss should be granted, since a stockholder may not maintain an action to hold an insolvent corporation's directors liable for fraud or mismanagement unless it appears that he will be benefited by the relief demanded, and full recovery here would still leave an excess of liabilities over assets. Falvey v. Foreman-State …


Corporations - Rights Of Creditors Of Insolvent Corporation - Greater Than Rights Of Corporation Jun 1936

Corporations - Rights Of Creditors Of Insolvent Corporation - Greater Than Rights Of Corporation

Michigan Law Review

The dissenting and majority opinions of Justices Roberts and Cardozo in the recent case of McCandless v. Furlaud are illustrative of basically divergent conceptions of the status and function of the corporate receiver. In the following examination and evaluation of these conflicting positions, attention will be directed chiefly to those situations involving the problem of promoter's profits. The language and attitude of the courts, however, is typical of that adopted in all cases in which the questions considered arise and the conclusions suggested are of general application.


Corporations - Obligation To Refund Dividends Paid Out Of Capital May 1932

Corporations - Obligation To Refund Dividends Paid Out Of Capital

Michigan Law Review

The general rule is fairly well established that, where dividends are paid, in whole or in part, out of the capital stock, corporate creditors, being such when the dividend was declared, or becoming such at any subsequent time, may, to the extent of their claims, if such claims are not otherwise paid, compel the stockholders to whom the dividend has been paid to refund whatever portion of the dividend was taken out of the capital stock. This, however, has been modified in the federal courts to the extent that where the dividend, although paid entirely out of capital, was received …


Bills And Notes - Is One Assuming Liabilities To The Creditors Of His Transferor A Holder In Due Course Feb 1932

Bills And Notes - Is One Assuming Liabilities To The Creditors Of His Transferor A Holder In Due Course

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff entered into an agreement whereby it was to receive all the assets of an insolvent bank as consideration for the assumption of certain specified liabilities. Among the assets was a note upon which the plaintiff is now suing a prior indorser. Although it was the intention of the defendant to indorse as agent in accordance with the request of the insolvent bank, on the face of his endorsement he indorsed individually. Held, that since the plaintiff was not a holder in due course, the note was subject to the same defenses in the hands of the plaintiff …


Bankruptcy-Effect Of Discharge On Assignment Of Expectancy May 1931

Bankruptcy-Effect Of Discharge On Assignment Of Expectancy

Michigan Law Review

The Bankruptcy Act of the United States provides for the preservation of liens against a bankrupt's property not specifically declared by the Act itself to be dissolved because of fraud or because obtained within four months prior to the filing of the petition in bankruptcy. A discharge in bankruptcy protects the bankrupt from personal liability but does not affect valid and subsisting liens. These may be enforced after the discharge is granted


Torts-Negligent Misrepresentation-Duty Arising From Contract To Persons Not Parties Mar 1931

Torts-Negligent Misrepresentation-Duty Arising From Contract To Persons Not Parties

Michigan Law Review

The defendants, accountants, examined the books of the Stern Co., knowing that their balance sheet and 32 certified copies would be exhibited as a basis for future credit, but not knowing of the plaintiff particularly. Through negligence they failed to discover and report insolvency. Relying upon the report showing a solvent concern plaintiff extended credit to the Stem Co. He sued for his loss in two counts, negligence and fraud. Held, defendants had no duty to plaintiff to exercise due care, so he can not recover for negligence in the examination. But defendants might be liable for fraud as …


Presumptions Affecting The Recovery Of Preferences By Trustee In Bankruptcy, Fowler V. Harper Jan 1928

Presumptions Affecting The Recovery Of Preferences By Trustee In Bankruptcy, Fowler V. Harper

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