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Libel And Slander-Fair Comment Jan 1931

Libel And Slander-Fair Comment

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff sued the defendant publisher for an alleged malicious attack on him as the coach of the local high school football team. The newspaper article in question, after reciting several defeats suffered by the local aggregation, declared that the players were not well versed in the fundamentals of the game, that the system of plays furnished them was exceedingly antiquated, and that their latent ability had not been brought out by proper coaching. Held, judgment of non-suit reversed, as the plaintiff can recover on proof of express malice. Hoeppner v. Dunkirk Printing Co. (N. Y. 1930) 172 N.E. …


Torts--Power Of A Minicipal Corporation To Sue For Libel Jun 1923

Torts--Power Of A Minicipal Corporation To Sue For Libel

Michigan Law Review

Can a municipal corporation maintain an action for libel? The recent $10,000,000 libel suit instituted by the City of Chicago against the Chicago Tribune promises to become a leading case in the solution of this question. The declaration filed by the city alleged ownership of property used in city affairs and that the city purchased materials for the maintenance of such property largely upon credit. It charged that libellous statements were falsely and maliciously published by the Chicago Tribune to the effect that the city was bankrupt and could not pay its debts, with intent to destroy its credit and …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney and Client--Unnecessary Services--Compensation; Bankruptcy--Title to Bankrupt's Property; Banks and Banking--Checks--Appropriation of Deposit--Garnishment; Chattel Mortgages--Retention of Possession and Power of Sale by Mortgagor--Fraud; Civil Rights--Power of Congress to Protect Against Individual Interference; Common Carriers--Limitation of Liability--Agreed Valuation; Constitutional Law--Delegation of Legislative Power--Regulations of Executive Departments; Constitutional Law--Regulation of Child Labor; Contracts--Mutuality--Consideration; Contracts--Restraint of Trade; Corporations--Misuse of Funds--Right of Stockholder to Sue; Corporations--Preferred Stock--Priorities--Cumulative Dividends; Covenants--Knowledge by the Grantee of Incumbrance; Criminal Law--conviction of Lesser Offense as Acquittal of Graver Offense--Former Jeopardy--Remanding Cause for Sentence; Damages--Mental Anguish--Undelivered Telegram; Deeds--Exceptions--Reservations--Abandonment of Right of Way--Reversion--Effect; Eminent Domain--Cemeteries; Evidence--Privileged Communications--Attorney and Client; Evidence--Res Gestae--Spontaneous …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1904

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgment--Who may Take--Stockholder; Action for Death of a Child-- Contributory Negligence; Adverse Possession--Computation of Time--Litigation in Land Office; Bankruptcy--Homestead--Jurisdiction of bankruptcy Court; Chattel Mortgages--Unidentified Number Among a Greater Number of Like Articles--Validity; Constitutional Law--Possession of Game fish in Closed Season; Constitutional Law--Special Act--Sunday Law; Contracts--Impossibility of Performance--Implied Condition; Contracts--Violation of Penal Statute--Transaction Void; corporations--Dissolution--Rights of Minority Stockholders; Corporations--Insolvency--Preferences to Officers; Equity--Jurisdiction--Partition--Oil Leases; Judgments--Absence of Jurisdiction--Injunction--Restraining Execution; Master and Servant--False Imprisonment--Duty of Merchant to Customers; Master and Servant--Fellow Servants--Assumed risks--Injuries to Servant While off Duty; Minor's enlistment in the Navy--Validity--Desertion--Arrest--habeas Corpus; Real Property--Rule in Shelley's Case--Wills; Specific Performance--Parol Contract--Part Performance; Suretyship--county …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1904

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Administrators--Right to Convey Inchoate Homestead; Agency--Scope of Authority--Sunday Contract; Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors--Action to set Aside; Bankruptcy--Discharge--Debt Created in Fiduciary Relation--Laundry Agent; Bills and Notes--Banks--Payment of Draft to Impost--Liability to Drawer; Chattel Mortgages-Validity--Mortgagor's Possession and Power of Sale in Ordinary Course of Business; Constitutional Law--Due Process at Law--Forfeiture of Lands for Failure to Pay Taxes; Constitutional Law--Local Option Law--Use of Liquors in Religious Worship--Discrimination; Contract for the Benefit of Third Persons--Enforcement by Beneficiary--Assignment; Corporations--Oral Subscription to Stock--Statute of Frauds; Corporations--Promissory Notes--Proof of Execution; Courts--Jurisdiction of State Court to Enjoin a Receiver Appointed by Federal Court; Damages--Automobiles--Frightening Horses--Excessive Speed; …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Who May Take--Competency Affected by Interest; Acknowledgement of Mortgage before Stockholder in Mortgage Corporation--Stockholder as Witness; Agency--Distinguished from Trust; Agency or Service--Telegraph Companies--Knowledge of Operator; Carrier--Refusal of Passenger to Pay Extra Fare--Assault by Conductor on Passenger While Enforcing the Company's Rules; Constitutional Law--Free Speech--Distribution of Circulars; Constitutional Law--Master and Servant--Weekly Payment of Wages; Constitutional Law--Municipal Corporations--Minimum Wage Law; Corporations--Partnership with an Individual; Corporations--Ultra Vires--Replevin Undertaking; Deed--Consideration--Bona Fide Purchaser; Eminent Domain--Appropriation of Railroad Property--compensation; Fraudulent Conveyances--Fraud on Creditors--Withholding Mortgage from Record; Fraudulent Conveyances--Loan by Wife to Husband; Garnishment--Rolling Stock--Rights of Garnishee; Guardian and Ward--Testamentary Guardian; Insurance--Pleading--Waiver--Failure of Notice and Proof--General and …


The Law Of The Telegraph Contracts -- Damages, Eugene L. Dominick Jan 1895

The Law Of The Telegraph Contracts -- Damages, Eugene L. Dominick

Historical Theses and Dissertations Collection

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