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Declaratory Judgments- Extension Of Protection Against Injuries To Personality Nov 1935

Declaratory Judgments- Extension Of Protection Against Injuries To Personality

Michigan Law Review

The widespread acceptance of the declaratory judgment as a statutory supplement to common law and equitable remedies has raised some searching questions as to the relation between right and remedy in Anglo-American law. The declaratory judgment can operate in anticipation of specific wrongs that would be a basis for ordinary legal or equitable relief. It does not depend for its efficacy on the use of the familiar remedies of law and equity - that is, on damages, specific restitution in replevin and ejectment, and the injunction and specific enforcement in equity. The question may therefore be asked whether the development …


Torts - Libel By Talking Pictures - Rasputin Case May 1934

Torts - Libel By Talking Pictures - Rasputin Case

Michigan Law Review

The motion picture production of "Rasputin The Mad Monk" portrayed an episode in which Rasputin seduced a young lady of the Russian court. Alleging that the character of the seduced was patterned after her own so that she had been defamed, the plaintiff brought an action of libel against the producers. Held, the plaintiff was entitled to damages of what, in this country, would amount to about one hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars. Youssoupov. v. M-G-M Pictures, England (1934).


Torts - Libel Per Se - Liability Of Newspaper For Republication Feb 1934

Torts - Libel Per Se - Liability Of Newspaper For Republication

Michigan Law Review

A news item published in a newspaper owned by the .defendant stated falsely that the plaintiff was being held in jail on a charge of forgery. From a judgment for plaintiff the defendant appealed. Held, the defamatory statement was "libellous per se," and the defendant was liable though the information was received through a reliable news-gathering agency and was printed without malice. Oklahoma Publishing Co. v. Givens, (C. C. A. 10th, 1933) 67 F. (2d) 62.


Libel - Defamatory Statements In Appellate Brief - Publication Of Excerpts By Legal Scholar As Privileged Dec 1932

Libel - Defamatory Statements In Appellate Brief - Publication Of Excerpts By Legal Scholar As Privileged

Michigan Law Review

The right to reputation, at least as far as written defamation is concerned, is recognized as an absolute right, to be invaded at peril. Yet it often becomes necessary in the course of judicial proceedings to consider the character and acts of individuals and to make them the subject of inquiry or comment. On such an occasion the demands of society compel a surrender of the interests of the citizen and require an immunity from prosecution for what would otherwise constitute an actionable wrong.


Torts - Libel And Slander - Publication May 1932

Torts - Libel And Slander - Publication

Michigan Law Review

Defendant uttered words which were defamatory of the plaintiff. The statement was made to defendant's wife and defendant had no reason to believe that they would be overheard. Held, there was no publication. Springer v. Swift (S. D. 1931) 239 N. W. 171.


Constitutional Law - Freedom Of The Press - Restraints On Publication, Maurice S. Culp Dec 1931

Constitutional Law - Freedom Of The Press - Restraints On Publication, Maurice S. Culp

Michigan Law Review

A recent Supreme Court decision establishes a new concept of freedom of the press, and adds new meaning to the liberty safeguarded by the Fourteenth Amendment. The defendant, Near, was enjoined from publishing his newspaper because it was alleged that the paper was largely devoted to the publication of malicious, scandalous, and defamatory articles about the grand jury, public officials, and others. The injunction was granted pursuant to a statute which made the publication of a malicious, scandalous, or defamatory newspaper, magazine, or periodical a nuisance subject to abatement by injunction. The Supreme Court of the United States decided that …


Evidence - Privileged Communication Dec 1931

Evidence - Privileged Communication

Michigan Law Review

In a suit for divorce on the ground of adultery, a Luthern clergyman refused to testify concerning a disclosure made to him in his religious capacity by the defendant husband, on the ground that it was a privileged communication under the Minnesota statute. The district court adjudged him in contempt of court. Upon certiorari to the supreme court of Minnesota, held, the communication was privileged, and the order was reversed. In re Swenson (Minn. 1931) 237 N.W. 589.


The Courts, The Press, And The Public, Stuart H. Perry Dec 1931

The Courts, The Press, And The Public, Stuart H. Perry

Michigan Law Review

It was with especial gratification that I accepted this invitation to speak. It is a pleasure to be with you, and it affords me an opportunity to contribute to a discussion of matters that are of great importance to your profession and my own and to the public. Perhaps I should not thus separate myself from your profession. I am still at least nominally a member of the bar, and though it is many years since I last appeared in court I have a keen and sympathetic interest in legal matters and enjoy my contacts with the bench and bar …


Libel And Slander-Words Actionable Per Se Mar 1931

Libel And Slander-Words Actionable Per Se

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff brought a slander action, alleging that the defendant had said "You dirty crook, you are the biggest crook in Bedford Avenue." Apparently the declaration alleged no special damages, and contained no innuendo setting forth circumstances which would enlarge the meaning of the statement complained of. On defendant's motion for a dismissal, on the ground that the complaint did not state a cause of action, held, that the words were actionable per se. Weiner v. Leviton (N. Y. App. Div. 1930) 244 N. Y. S. 176.


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. …


Libel And Slander-Liability Of A Telegraph Company For The Transmission Of A Defamatory Message Jan 1931

Libel And Slander-Liability Of A Telegraph Company For The Transmission Of A Defamatory Message

Michigan Law Review

It is surprising that despite the tremendous number of messages handled, covering almost every conceivable subject, the question of the liability of a telegraph company for the transmission of a defamatory message has arisen in but half a dozen jurisdictions. The earliest reported case, decided in 1858 when the law as to the tort liability of a corporation was still in the formative period, asserted the liability of the telegraph company on the sole ground that a corporation could be guilty of malice. Following a series of cases arising in the state and federal courts of Minnesota, a modern rule …


Libel - Plaintlff's Portrait-Story Concerning Another Dec 1930

Libel - Plaintlff's Portrait-Story Concerning Another

Michigan Law Review

Defendant published in a newspaper the picture of the plaintiff, Alta Woolf, under the headline, "Sued for Balm," and above a caption to the effect that "Mrs. Ruth Felgenauer (above) 11002 Nelson Ave." had been made defendant in an alienation suit. To the plaintiff's libel action, defendant demurred. Held, the trial court was correct in sustaining the demurrer because, in its entirety, the publication was not calculated to lead third persons to believe that it referred to plaintiff. Woolf v. Scripps Pub. Co. (Ohio, Ct. App. 1930) 172 N.E. 389.


The Radio And Interstate Commerce Jun 1928

The Radio And Interstate Commerce

Michigan Law Review

As each newly discovered scientific principle is taken advantage of in the practical world, new legal problems arise around it. One way or another it is eventually taken care of by the expansion of the legal system to embrace the new situation. The discovery of radio transmission is an example made striking by the extraordinary speed with which it has become a part of the people's daily life and the conflicts of interest that are peculiar to it. The law found itself relieved of many of the embarrassments in dealing with the problem by the fact that Congress early undertook …


Book Reviews May 1928

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Libel--Privileged Communications--Communications Sent To Compensation Commissioner After Award, Fred L. Davis Dec 1927

Libel--Privileged Communications--Communications Sent To Compensation Commissioner After Award, Fred L. Davis

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Libel--A Limitation On The Privilege Of Publishing Reports Of Judicial Proceedings Mar 1926

Libel--A Limitation On The Privilege Of Publishing Reports Of Judicial Proceedings

Michigan Law Review

Is a newspaper privileged in fairly publishing the substance of a petition for divorce or other pleading immediately after it is filed in court? In the recent case of Washington Times v. Hines, (1925) 5 F. (2d) 541, in the District of Columbia, it appeared that defendant had published a typically facetious newspaper account of the divorce grounds alleged in a petition filed against plaintiff. The court of appeals, reversing a judgment of the trial court for plaintiff, held that the report was as a matter of law not libellous, since the bill was not susceptible of any other interpretation …


Interest And Duty In Relation To Qualified Privilege, Harold A. Jones Mar 1924

Interest And Duty In Relation To Qualified Privilege, Harold A. Jones

Michigan Law Review

From the standpoint of the civil law of defamation it is perfectly. permissible to say what one pleases of a man when the subject of the charge is the only person present. To make the same communication to others, however, may be to invite a lawsuit; and the difference between idle gossip and legitimate interest is often the determining factor in ascertaining liability. If Smith calls Brown a thief, they two being alone, Smith cannot be held liable. If Mrs. Smith is present, he may still be immune. If the statement is made in a lodge meeting, Smith still might …


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 Mar 1923

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Telegraph And Telephone Companies--Liability To Addressee--Condition Agreed To By Sender Binding On Addressee Nov 1920

Telegraph And Telephone Companies--Liability To Addressee--Condition Agreed To By Sender Binding On Addressee

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Liability Of A Telegraph Company To An Addressee For Non-Delivery Of Failure To Deliver, G. E. O. Nov 1920

Liability Of A Telegraph Company To An Addressee For Non-Delivery Of Failure To Deliver, G. E. O.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In War Time The Espionage Act, Thomas F. Carroll Jun 1919

Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In War Time The Espionage Act, Thomas F. Carroll

Michigan Law Review

The Imperial German Government had never made a secret of its willingness to encourage disloyalty among the citizens and subjects of Germany's enemies. It had officially announced: "Bribery of enemies' subjects, acceptance of offers of treachery, utilization of discontented elements in the population, support of pretenders and the like are permissible; indeed, international law is in no way opposed to the exploitation of the crimes of third parties."'


Liability Of Corporations For Slander, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Jan 1918

Liability Of Corporations For Slander, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Articles

S. entrusted by the president and general manager of a corporation with the business of obtaining a settlement from plaintiff for a mistakenly supposed shortage in his accounts with the corporation, falsely orally charged him with embezzlement. This charge was made to R., president of another corporation for which the plaintiff was working at the time, and as a step toward getting a settlement by the plaintiff. On the request for a directed verdict, by the defendant, the legal question was presented whether a corporation is liable for slander spoken by the agent of the corporation in the course of …


Note And Comment, Evans Holbrook, Myron Mclaren, Walter F. Whitman May 1916

Note And Comment, Evans Holbrook, Myron Mclaren, Walter F. Whitman

Michigan Law Review

The Death of President Angell - The death of Dr. James Burrill ANGELL, president-emeritus of the university, has deprived the law school of a sympathetic and helpful friend. Such was the catholicity of Dr. ANGL'S mind and his intellectual interests that probably all departments of the university felt and had good reason to feel that he was in some special sense the interested friend of each.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1910

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney and Client--Authority of Attorney--Compromise; Attorney and Client--Disbarment--Reasonable Doubt; Bankruptcy--Corporations Subject to Involuntary Bankruptcy--Amendment of 1910; Bankruptcy--Following Trust Funds into Hands of Trustee in Bankruptcy; Bills and Notes--Notice by Mail--Proof of Mailing; Bills and Notes--Right of Drawee of Forged Check or Draft to Recover Money Paid Thereon; Boundaries--Line Between Riparian Owners; Boundaries--Monuments Give Way to Courses and Distances; Carriers--Limitation of Amount of Recovery in Case of loss of Baggage; Charities--Testamentary Trusts--Gift for Masses; Constitutional Law--Religious Liberty--Religious Exercises in Schools--Bible; Contracts--In Restraint of Trade--When Valid; Courts--Doctrine of Stare Decisis; Evidence--Admissibility of Confessions; Evidence--Admissibility of Market Quotations; Executors and Administrators--Denial of Application …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1910

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Appeal and Error--Meaning of "Person Aggrieved"; Bankruptcy--dower Rights of Bankrupt's Wife; Bankruptcy--Mechanic's Lien--Set Off; Bills and Notes--Usury--when note is Void as to Both Principal and Interest; Boundaries--Meander Line--Riparian Rights; Citizenship--Marriage of Alien Woman to a Citizen--Naturalization; Constitutional law--Constitutionality of Office of Supreme Judge--Construction of State Constitution; Constitutional Law--Full Faith and Credit--Chancery Power to Affect Foreign Property; Constitutional Law--Police Power--License and Registration of Automobiles; Contracts--Restraint of Trade--Limitation as to Time; Damages--Breach of Warranty of Title--Attorney's Fees and Costs; Deeds--Support and Maintenance as Consideration--Condition Subsequent; Evidence--Crimes Affecting Credibility of Witnesses; Evidence--Letters Between Husband and Wife--Not Privileged in Hands of Third Parties; Husband …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Agent's Liability When Name of Principal is Undisclosed; Attorney and Client--Admission to Practice--Moral Character; Bailment--Hiring--Conversion; Bankruptcy--Attempted Assignment by Trustee to a Creditor of Fraudulently Acquired Property; Bankruptcy--Fraudulent Conveyance--Vendor's Lien; Banks and Banking--Pass Books--Duty of Depositor; Bills and Notes--Antecedent Debt Constitutes Value; Common Carriers--Special Service; Conflict of Laws--Defense to an Action of Tort; Constitutional law--due Process of Law--Equal Protection of the Laws--Service on State Auditor as Attorney for Corporation; Contracts--Right of Privacy--Breach of Trust; Corporations--Ultra Vires; criminal Procedure--Indictment Must Negative Exception in Statute; Damages--Measure--Medical Attendance--Loss of Business; Damages--Mental Suffering--Failure to Deliver Telegram Promptly; Deeds--Redelivery to the Grantor--Effect as to Title; Easements …


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 May 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Use of "He" Instead of "They"; Adverse Possession--Easement--License--Legal Maxim; Attachment--Conflict of Jurisdictoin--State and Federal Courts; Bills and Notes--Negotiability of Overdue Note; Bills and Notes--Presentment; Common Carriers--Fellow Servant Rule--Departmental Doctrine; Conspiracy--Recovery Against One Alone; Constitutional Law--County Taxes--Statutory Limitation--Impairment of Contracts; Constitutional Law--Search And Seizure--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Sunday Law--Obligatory on Hebrews; Contracts to make a Particular Disposition of Property at Death--Specific Performance; Corporations--Banks and Banking--Negligence of Directors--Liability for Deceit--Liability to Creditors; Corporations--Issue of Convertible Bonds--Increase of Capital Stock--Preemptive Right of Stockholders; Covenants--Technical and Substantial Breach; Deeds--Condition Subsequent--Agreement to Support; Divorce--Alimony--Decree--Monion to Vacate; Dower--Rights of Divorced Wife; Eminent Domain--Telephone Poles in …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Apr 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Statute Requiring Examination and License as Prerequisites to Ownership or Management of a Dental Office Unconstitutional; Railroad Control of the Telegraph Business; The Need of Uniform Laws Governing "Conditional Sales"; Jurisdiction of Equity over Void Instruments; Quitclaim Deed as Affecting the Question of Good Faith; Competency of a child as a Witness; Compensation for Party Walls as Between Subsequent Grantees;