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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 …


Trusts -Tracing Of Assets - Preference Jan 1932

Trusts -Tracing Of Assets - Preference

Michigan Law Review

In State ex rel Sorenson v. Farmers' State Bank of Polk (Lindquist, Intervenor) the beneficiary of a trust fund converted by the bank, subsequently becoming insolvent, was allowed to resort to equity and recover the trust fund as a preferred claim against the general assets of the bank. The beneficiary deposited a promissory note in the sum of $4,500 in the bank for a special purpose and the bank, without authority, indistinguishably mingled the proceeds of this note with the general mass of bank assets. The amount of actual cash on hand when the insolvent bank was taken over by …


Bankruptcy-Provable Claims-Contingent Liability Jan 1932

Bankruptcy-Provable Claims-Contingent Liability

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Federal Bankruptcy Act--Its History And Operation, R. P. Hobson Jan 1932

Federal Bankruptcy Act--Its History And Operation, R. P. Hobson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Corporations - Dissolution - Distribution Of Assets Between Preferred And Common Stockholders Dec 1931

Corporations - Dissolution - Distribution Of Assets Between Preferred And Common Stockholders

Michigan Law Review

In periods of business depression, problems concerning the dissolution and liquidation of corporations, with the question of preference between the holders of the preferred and common stock, often become very acute. A recent case, presenting the question of preference from the aspect of unpaid dividends on preferred stock, is Penington v. Commonwealth Hotel Construction Corporation.


Corporations - Power To Dispose Of Realty Dec 1931

Corporations - Power To Dispose Of Realty

Michigan Law Review

A cattle company, authorized by its charter to deal only in live stock, was in possession of three tracts of land. Upon a decision of the stockholders and directors to dissolve, two of these tracts were sold outright. The third, being near a large city, was subdivided into city lots with streets, sidewalks, water, lights, etc., for the purpose of a more advantageous sale. This involved the expenditure of considerable sums of money, and at the end of four years some of the lots were still unsold. The corporation became insolvent and the receiver refused to pay the money borrowed …


Sales--Distinction Between Conditional Sale And Chattel Mortgage-Michigan Rule Jun 1931

Sales--Distinction Between Conditional Sale And Chattel Mortgage-Michigan Rule

Michigan Law Review

The petitioner sold a truck under an unrecorded contract which provided that title was to remain in him until the buyer made full payment, and that in event of default the whole sum was to become due immediately with the right of reclamation. The buyer subsequently went into bankruptcy and the seller petitioned for reclamation of the truck from the trustee. Held, that since the contract under the Michigan rule constituted a chattel mortgage so that failure to record it made it ineffective against creditors, the petition should be denied. In re Central States Freight Corporation (E. D. Mich. …


Book Reviews Jun 1931

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

Multiple book reviews by various authors.


Corporations-Liquidation-Jurisdiction Of Court May 1931

Corporations-Liquidation-Jurisdiction Of Court

Michigan Law Review

A recent New Jersey case, Naspo v. Summits Sweet Shoppe, Inc., suggests interesting questions of the jurisdiction of equity over insolvent corporations. In that case, a bill was brought under section 69 of the New Jersey code, by a simple contract creditor with a small claim of $75 praying for the appointment of a receiver and the distribution of the assets. After the court had heard the parties on a motion for the appointment of a receiver, new counsel for the defendant corporation came in at a later hearing, offered to pay plaintiff's claim and asked for a dismissal …


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


Contracts-Liability Of Purchaser At Forclosure Sale For Obligations Of Forclosed Railroad Apr 1931

Contracts-Liability Of Purchaser At Forclosure Sale For Obligations Of Forclosed Railroad

Michigan Law Review

The BN Company executed a mortgage on certain railroad properties as security for a bond issue of the Company. Thereafter the Lehigh Company leased the mortgaged property for a term of 999 years. The lease stipulated that "all its covenants are to apply to the parties hereto, and to the several successors and assigns * * * of the parties or their properties." The lessee covenanted therein to indorse a guaranty of payment on the bonds of the BN Company. and did so indorse. Subsequently a mortgage executed by Lehigh prior to the lease with the BN Company, but which …


Failed Banks, Collection Items, And Trust Preferences, George Gleason Bogert Mar 1931

Failed Banks, Collection Items, And Trust Preferences, George Gleason Bogert

Michigan Law Review

About 1,200 banks failed in the United States during the year 1930, and failures for the years 1921-1929 averaged over 600 a year. Each of these bank failures doubtless involved several problems regarding collection items. In each case it was almost inevitable that there should be found among the assets in the hands of the defunct bank several items held for collection but not yet collected, and also that a number of items should have been collected but no effective remittance made on account of such collection. There thus arose a series of controversies between the banks or individuals which …


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 …


Review: Handbook Of The Law And Practics Of Bankruptcy. Second Edition. By Henry Campbell Black., Evans Holbrook Mar 1931

Review: Handbook Of The Law And Practics Of Bankruptcy. Second Edition. By Henry Campbell Black., Evans Holbrook

Michigan Law Review

A Review of HANDBOOK OF THE LAW AND PRACTICS OF BANKRUPTCY. Second Edition. By Henry Campbell Black.


Corporations-Dissolution-Distributi0n Of Assets Between Holders Of Fully And Partially Paid Stock Dec 1930

Corporations-Dissolution-Distributi0n Of Assets Between Holders Of Fully And Partially Paid Stock

Michigan Law Review

On the insolvency of the Commonwealth Hotel Construction Co. and after, the creditors had been paid in full, there were assets on hand for distribution among the stockholders. The holders of partially paid stock requested that the assets be distributed in proportion to the amounts which the various stockholders had paid in. This in effect meant that the losses were to be proportional to the amounts paid in, instead of being proportional to the amounts which the stockholders had contracted to pay, and was resisted by the holders of fully paid stock as being inequitable. The chancellor (after holding in …


Receivers-Penalties On Taxes Dec 1930

Receivers-Penalties On Taxes

Michigan Law Review

The recent case of McCormick v. Puritan Coal Mining Co. presents the question whether penalties and interest continue to accrue on delinquent taxes after the date of the appointment of a receiver. The court determined the question in the negative, supporting its decision by authorities which hold that interest does not ordinarily accrue on the debts of an insolvent after the date of the appointment of a receiver. The decision is directly contrary to the established rule that tax penalties and interest continue to accrue, notwithstanding the property has passed into the hands of a receiver.


Claims Against The Creditor As Defenses To The Surety, H. W. Arant Dec 1930

Claims Against The Creditor As Defenses To The Surety, H. W. Arant

Michigan Law Review

In the absence of statutory provision, where the surety is sued alone, the generally accepted view is that he can not show the existence of a claim in favor of his principal against the creditor for the purpose of preventing or decreasing the creditor's recovery against him. The view has frequently been applied where the surety, sued alone, sought to set up the creditor's breach of warranty as a defense. It recognizes that such a breach of warranty gives rise to a cause of action against the creditor that belongs solely to the principal debtor. It also recognizes the possibility …


Bankruptcy-Voluntary Petition By Incompetent On Court Order Dec 1930

Bankruptcy-Voluntary Petition By Incompetent On Court Order

Michigan Law Review

A state court adjudged B to be insane, committed him to an asylum, appointed G as guardian of his estate, and later authorized G to file a voluntary petition in bankruptcy on behalf of B. Such a petition was filed by G, the schedule of liabilities showing debts contracted before B was adjudicated insane. The federal district court adjudicated B a bankrupt and appointed a trustee in bankruptcy, who sued C to recover an alleged preference paid to C by B. C then sought to set aside the adjudication of bankruptcy on the ground that an insane person could not …


Corporations-Dissolution-Distribution Of Assets Between Preferred And Common Stockholders Dec 1930

Corporations-Dissolution-Distribution Of Assets Between Preferred And Common Stockholders

Michigan Law Review

The Commonwealth Hotel Construction Co. became insolvent, and, after the creditors had been paid in full, the preferred and common stockholders disagreed to the distribution of the remaining assets. The articles of incorporation provided that the holders of preferred stock should be entitled to dividends at the rate of seven per centum per annum which should be cumulative "so that, if dividends for any past dividend period at the rate of seven per centum per annum shall not have been paid thereon or set apart therefor, the deficiency shall be fully paid or set apart, but without interest, before any …


Damages-Penalty And Liquidation Damages Distinguished- Jun 1930

Damages-Penalty And Liquidation Damages Distinguished-

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Black On Bankruptcy, Fowler Vincent Harper Apr 1930

Black On Bankruptcy, Fowler Vincent Harper

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recovery Of Property By Trustees In Bankruptcy In The Federal Courts, Fowler Vincent Harper Jan 1930

Recovery Of Property By Trustees In Bankruptcy In The Federal Courts, Fowler Vincent Harper

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Landlord And Tenant-Contracts-Bankruptcy Nov 1929

Landlord And Tenant-Contracts-Bankruptcy

Indiana Law Journal

Recent Case Notes


Facts About Bankruptcy, T. W. Arnold Feb 1929

Facts About Bankruptcy, T. W. Arnold

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Royal Prerogative In The United States, Judson A. Crane Jun 1928

A Royal Prerogative In The United States, Judson A. Crane

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Corporations-Repurchase Of Its Own Shares By A Corporation In Performane Of A Promise Forming Part Of The Contract Of Sale May 1928

Corporations-Repurchase Of Its Own Shares By A Corporation In Performane Of A Promise Forming Part Of The Contract Of Sale

Michigan Law Review

One Rosenthal entered the employ of the defendant corporation for two years at a salary of $10,000.00 per year; $75.00 per week to be paid in cash, and the balance to be paid in stock of the corporation at the end of each year. The contract contained a proviso that if the parties could not, at the end of the second year, reach an understanding for a continuation of the employment, the company would repurchase its shares at their par value. No such agreement was reached, and the company refused to take back its stock. Rosenthal brought his bill in …


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

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


New Books On Bankruptcy, James J. Robinson Mar 1927

New Books On Bankruptcy, James J. Robinson

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Corporations-Default In Filing Annual Report Nov 1926

Corporations-Default In Filing Annual Report

Michigan Law Review

Several thousand corporations, domestic and foreign, organized for profit, doing business in Michigan, were startled by the decision of the supreme court of the state handed down in October, in the case of Mishke v. Eddy Realty Co. (not yet reported).


Rights Of Margin Customers In Brokers' Failures, Jay T. Mccamic Dec 1925

Rights Of Margin Customers In Brokers' Failures, Jay T. Mccamic

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.