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Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Edwin C. Goddard Jun 1907

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Edwin C. Goddard

Michigan Law Review

The Liability of Charitable Corporations for the Torts of Their Servants; the Powers of General and Special Agents; Municipal Ordinances Licensing Trades and Occupations; "Sic Utere Tuo Ut Alienum Non Laedas"; Interference with the Formation of Contracts; The Right of Directors to Use Corporate Funds in Getting Proxies From the Stockholders; Sales Void for Uncertainty and Lack of Mutuality; The Negotiable Instruments Law as Affecting the Discharge of Accommodation Maker and Surety by Extension of Time of Payment


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Insurance Policies--Cash Surrender Value; Bankruptcy--Partnership and Individual Assets; Bills and Notes--Payment by the United States of Pension Checks on Forged Indorsements--Recovery of Payment; Common Carriers--Defective Transfers; Constitutional Law--Commerce in Intoxicating Liquors--License Tax of Traveling Salesman; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Law--State Statute; Constitutional law--Police Power--Flag Legislation; Contracts--Assignments of--Right of Assignee Against Debtor; Corporations--Acquisition of Exemption in Merger; Deeds--Construction and Operation--Reservation and Exception; Deeds--Suit to Set Aside--Duress of Wife--Parties in Pari Delicto; Evidence--Confessions to One Not in Authority--Admissibility; Foreign Corporations--Effect on contracts of Failure to Register--Contracts; Fraud--Independent Investigation; Frauds, Statute of--agreement to Deal in Lands; Husband and Wife--Right to Disposition of …


Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Ralph W. Aigler, T. Harry Slusser, Ivan E. Chapman May 1907

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Ralph W. Aigler, T. Harry Slusser, Ivan E. Chapman

Michigan Law Review

The James McMillan Memorial Association; Liability of Hospitals for the Negligence of Their Physicians and Nurses; Intent in Embezzlement by Corporate Official; The Validity of the Initiative and Referendum; Scope of Review, on Appeal from Decision of State Board of Health, Revoking Certificate to Practice Medicine; What are the Rights of a Person Under a Promise to do That Which He was Already under Obligation to Do?;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Assigned Claim for Wages--Preference; Bankruptcy--time of Filing Claims; Banks and Banking--Liability of Stockholders--Unregistered Transfer; Banks and Banking--What is a Bank?; Bills and Notes--Indorsement Before Issue--Liabilities; Bills and Notes--usury--Evidence--Burden of Proof; Carriers--Freight Elevators as Carriers of Passengers; Carriers of Passengers--Servants--Communication of Disease; Constitutional Law--Delegation of Power; Constitutional Law--Police Power to Restrict Hours of Labor; Contracts--Mutuality; Courts--Criminal Law--Instructions to Jury; Covenants--Warranty--claims "By, Through or Under" Grantor--Eminent Domain; Criminal Law--Exclusion of Public From Trial; Criminal Law--Trial--conduct of Jury--comments on Defendant's Failure to Testify; Divorce--Custody of Minor Children--Duty to Support Father's Misconduct; Ejectment--When Maintainable--Easements; Estate by Entirety--Effect of Murder of Wife by Husband; Evidence--Wife …


Note And Comment, Horace L. Wilgus, Thomas V. Williams, Fabian B. Dodds, Hugo Sonnenschein Apr 1907

Note And Comment, Horace L. Wilgus, Thomas V. Williams, Fabian B. Dodds, Hugo Sonnenschein

Michigan Law Review

Wilgus: Payment of Dividends Out of Capital of Corporations and the Nature of Treasury Stock; Wilgus: Duty of a Managing Director of a Corporation to an Individual Shareholder; Williams: Impairing Obligation of Contract with Foreign Corporations; Dodds: May a Legislature Pass an Act Allowing Actual Expenses to Circuit Judges Whose Salaries are Fixed by the State Constitution?; Sonnenschein: What Constitutes a Waiver by Implication of the Privilege of Confidential Communications Between Attorney and Client


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Aliens - Right to Take Land by Descent - Loss of State's Right to Escheat; Bailment - Liability of Incidental Bailee; Bankruptcy - Preferences - Franchise Tax; Bankruptcy - Transfers Required to be Recorded - Preferences; Bills and Notes - Bona Fide Purchaser - Notice of Want of Power in Transferrer; Bills and Notes - Unrestricted Negotiability of Bills of Lading; Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - Statute Relating to Interstate Carriers as Employers; Constitutional Law - Indeterminate Sentence Law; Courts - Rules of Property - Stare Decisis; Criminal Law - Exclusion of Public from Trials; Criminal Law - Impeachment …


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 Feb 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Admiralty--Liability of Public Corporation for Tort; Bankruptcy--bills and Notes--discharge of Indorser; Bankruptcy--Title to Stock Held by Stockholders; Bills and Notes--Renewal of Void Note--Moral Obligation Not a Good Consideration; Bills and Notes--Renewal of Void Note--Moral Obligation Sufficient Consideration; Carriers--contributory Negligence--Protruding Arms of Passengers; Carriers--Contributory Negligence--Protruding Arms of Passengers; Constitutional law--foreign Corporations--Service of Summons on the Auditor of State--Due Process of Law; Contract to Devise--Parol Evidence to vary Consideration Expressed in a Deed; Corporations--application for Shares--Contracts; Easements--Way of Necessity--Relation of Parties; Equity--Jurisdiction--Bills of Peace; Executors and Administrators--Allowance to Surviving Children--Stepchildren; Garnishment--Proceeds form Sale of Homestead Exempt; Garnishment--Waiver of Defect in Writ; Homestead--conveyance--Joinder …


Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, John R. Rood, Roy L. Black, Ivan E. Chapman Feb 1907

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, John R. Rood, Roy L. Black, Ivan E. Chapman

Michigan Law Review

Waiver of the Statutory Protection to the confidential Relation of Physician and Patient; Inter-State Rendition; When a Public Officer Misappropriating Public Funds is Not an Embezzler; When a Discharged Teacher May Resort to the Courts;


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 Dec 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Action by Trustee--Right of Set-Off; Bills and Notes--forged Check--Payment--Recovery Back; Boundaries--Artificial Bodies of Water; Carriers--who are Passengers--Fraud in Securing Carriage; Corporations--Exclusive Privileges--Statutory Construction; Corporations--Penal Offense--Construction of Statute; Costs--change of Venue--Liability of County; Criminal law--Proximate Cause--Deposit of Obscene Matter in the Mail; Damages--Status of Dead Bodies--Mutilation--Mental Suffering; Easements--Adverse Possession--Color of Title; Eminent Domain--Telephone Poles in Highway--No Additional Burden; Equity--Injunction Against Prosecution; Evidence--Aliens--Burden of Proof in Deportation Proceedings; False Imprisonment--Joinder of Causes of Action; Garnishment--Liability of Executor; Homestead--alienation by Widow--Abandonment--Limitation of Actions; Insurance--Interest of Owner in Property--Sole and Unconditional Owner; Insurance--Sale of One Company to Another--rights of Policy-Holders and Agents of the …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--"Mining" includes Quarrying; Bankruptcy--Persons Entitled to Oppose Discharge; Banks and Banking--Right of Drawer of Check to Stop its Payment; Bills and Notes--Trustees for Benefit of Creditors as Holders in Due course--Pre-Existing Debt Constitutes Value; Building Contracts--Provisions for Extra Work--Powers of Architect; Common Carriers--Delay Co-Operating with Act of God; Contracts--When a Breach on the Part of One party to a Contract Entitles the Other to Rescind; Criminal Law--Former Jeopardy; Damages--Recovery for Gratuitous Services; Deeds--Estate Granted--Conflict Between the Habendum and the Granting Clauses; Equity--Wills--Precatory Trust; Foreign Corporations--Statute Revoking License on Removal of a Cause to Federal Court; Husband and Wife--Purchase by Wife …


Validity Of Contracts Between Corporations Having Common Directors, Harold M. Bowman Jun 1906

Validity Of Contracts Between Corporations Having Common Directors, Harold M. Bowman

Michigan Law Review

Among many who heed the results of the examinations into the methods of trust, corporation and extensive financial activities, there is a conservative belief that improvement is to be secured not by sweeping alterations in legislation, or revolutionary conversions in public opinion, but by persistent and skillful reformation of the detail of law itself. The recommendations of the Armstrong insurance committee of New York bear adequate witness to this fact. But it is interesting to note that most of the recommendations have been addressed to executive and legislative authority, not to the judiciary. This is but natural, considering the purposes …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney--disbarment for Malpractice; Bills and Notes--Certification of Check; Bills and Notes--consideration--Illegal Use of Proceeds--Sunday Contracts; Bills and Notes--Notice of Protest; Carrier--Invalid Ticket--Tender of Cash Fare--Ejection of Passenger; Common Carriers--Express Companies--Municipal Tax on Delivery of Intoxicating Liquors--Mandamus to Compel Transportation; Common Carriers--Limitation of Liability by Special Contract--Hand Baggage; Constitutional Law--Obligation of Contract; Constitutional law--Privileges of Citizens--Interstate Commerce--Peddler's License; Corporations--conflict of Laws--Liability of Stockholders in Company Formed to Trade in a Foreign Country--Implied Authority to Pledge Personal Credit of Shareholders Under Foreign Law; Covenants--Privity of Estate; Criminal Law--False Pretenses--Post payable Check; Criminal Law--Presumption from Identity of Names; Deeds--Capacity of Grantor as Compared …


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, Edwin C. Goddard, Emiliano Gala, Willis Gordon Stoner, Henry M. Bates Apr 1906

Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Emiliano Gala, Willis Gordon Stoner, Henry M. Bates

Michigan Law Review

Liability of Principal for Mistake or Fraud of Agent; Contracts by Correspondence; The Police Power and city ordinances for the disposal of Garbage; Restriction Upon the Right of a Carrier to Deal in Commodities Transported by It;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew Apr 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Ratification--Action by Principal Based on His Own Ratification; Bailments--Negligence of Bailor and Bailee; Bills and Notes--Designation of Amount--Marginal Figures; Bills and Notes--Sufficiency of Plaintiff's Title; Bills and Notes--Rights of an Accommodation Maker; Carriers--Liability of Steamship Company for Loss of Passenger's Baggage; Common Carrers--Limitation of Liability by Special Contract--Exemption Includes Limitation; Constitutional Law--Game Laws; Constitutional Law--Habeas Corpus--Former Jeopardy; Contract for Sale of Realty--Rescission--Bringing Action not Sufficient Notice of Recission; Corporations--Foreign Corporations--Doing Business in the State--State Control--Taxation of Intra-State Business; Corporations--Illegal Payment of Dividends--Statuatory Liability of Directors--Discretion of Directors; Corporations--Ultra Vires Contract--Powers of Railroad Company--Estoppel; Criminal Law--Homicide--Threats by Deceased; Damages--Nursing by Husband …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Arbitration and Award--By-Laws of Board of Trade--Ousting Courts' Jurisdiction; Bills and Notes--Accommodation Indorsement--Conflict of Laws; Bills and Notes--Material Alteration; Common Carriers--Duty to Notify Passenger of Arrival at His Destination--Must Awaken Sleeping Passenger if His Destination is Known; Constitutional Law--Anti-Trust Laws--Equal Protection of the Laws; Constitutional Law--Insurance--State Statutes Prohibiting Combinations Among Insurance Companies--Do Not Violate Fourteenth Amendment; Constitutional Law--Prosecution by Information due Process of Law; Contracts--Agreement to Employ Only Members of a Certain Union; Contracts--Public Policy--Location of Depots; Corporations--Reduction of Stock--Equitable Relief--Powers of Officers; Corporations--Suit by Stockholders--Refusal of Directors to Sue; Corporations--Suit in Stockholders' Names--Device to Confer Jurisdiction on Federal Courts; …


The Effect Of Ratification As Between The Principal And The Other Party, Floyd R. Mechem Feb 1906

The Effect Of Ratification As Between The Principal And The Other Party, Floyd R. Mechem

Michigan Law Review

The question of the effect of ratification as between the principal and the other party to the transaction involves two aspects: a. What are the rights of the other party against the principal based upon the ratification? b. What rights does the principal by his own ratification acquire against the other party to the transaction ratified? Each of these also may be considered from the standpoint of actions based upon contract or sounding in tort.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew Feb 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgment--Notary Agent of Grantee--Extra Compensation for Securing Acknowledgment; Attachment of Real Property--Conflict of Jurisdiction--Federal and State Courts; Attorney and Client--Contract Between--Fraudulent Conveyance; Bankruptcy--Preferences--Securing Attorney's Fee; Banks--Liability of Private Banker; Common Carriers--Duty to Receive Helpless Persons as Passengers--Degree of Care Required When Accepted; Common Carriers--duty Toward Hackmen at Depots--May Discriminate; Constitutional Law--Impairing Obligation of Contract--Contracts with Waterworks Companies; Constitutional Law--License for Issuing Trading Stamps; Constitutional Law--Trading Stamp Laws; Corporations--amendment of Charter--Service on--Liberty to Contract; Corporations--Constitutional Law--Pools and Trusts--Foreign Insurance Companies; Criminal law--Written instructions to Jury; damages--Fright Unconnected with Physical Injury; Deed--description--Conveyance to Trustee--Necessity of Word "heirs"--Rule in Shelley's Case--Adverse Possession; Evidence--Corporations--Books …


Selected Cases On The Law Of Negotiable Instruments, Robert E. Bunker Jan 1906

Selected Cases On The Law Of Negotiable Instruments, Robert E. Bunker

Books

The cases appearing in this volume have been selected primarily for the use of students pursuing the study of Negotiable Instruments and particularly for students in the Law Department of the University of Michigan. They are arranged in order to conform to the plan of instruction now pursued in that Department. The plan to which reference is made is sufficiently indicated by the Table of Contents infra. In brief, it involves a study of the law of Negotiable Instruments on the basis of the contract of the several parties as that law has been declared by the courts and, …


Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Henry M. Bates, Charles H. L'Hommedieu, Maurice C. Mcgiffin Dec 1905

Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Henry M. Bates, Charles H. L'Hommedieu, Maurice C. Mcgiffin

Michigan Law Review

Including Breach of Contract--Lumley V. Gye; Vote by machine is a Constitutional Ballot; Administration Upon Estates of Absentees; A Labor Union's Right to Declare and Carry Out a Boycott


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reviw Dec 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reviw

Michigan Law Review

Bills and Notes--Assignment of a Note by an Insane Person; Bills and Notes--Necessity for Identification of Payee of Check--Payment of Forged Check; Carriers--Limitation of Amount of Liability by Special Contract--Negligence--Limitation Valid; Carriers--Owners of Passenger Elevators--Not Liable as Common Carriers; Carriers--Owners of Passenger Elevators--Liable as Common Carriers; Constitutional Law--Indeterminate Sentence--Invation of Executive or Judicial Functions; Constitutional law--Obligation of Contract--Stockholders' Liability to Creditors; Constitutional Law--Sales--Interstate Commerce; Constitutional Law--Trial by Jury in Territories; Contract--Action for Breach--Question for Jury; Contract--Effect of Assignment of a Dramshop License as part Consideration; Corporations-- Insolvency--Sale--Creditors' Bill--Preferences to Officers; Corporations--Insolvency--Stockholders' Liabilities--Action at Law; Divorce--Alimony--Foreign Decree--Enforcement; Divorce--Epileptic's Marriage in Violation …


Consideration V Causa In Roman-American Law, Joseph H. Drake Nov 1905

Consideration V Causa In Roman-American Law, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

In the case of Mtembre v. Webster, decided recently (19o4) in the Supreme Court of Cape Colony, South Africa, the court (De VILLIERS, J.) says that the causa of Roman-Dutch Law* (oorsaak-German Ursache) has become for all practical purposes equivalent to the valuable consideration of the Common Law., The court says further, 'I can not find that in practice any gratuitous promises except donations-as to which there are especial rules were ever enforced by law.' Sir Frederick Pollock in commenting on this case says, "The power of the Common Law to impose its conceptions on foreign systems when opportunities occur …


Uniform State Laws Governing Negotiable Documents Of Title, Francis B. James Nov 1905

Uniform State Laws Governing Negotiable Documents Of Title, Francis B. James

Michigan Law Review

Our forefathers, not foreseeing that the States would some day become one country for commercial purposes, failed to vest in Congress power to regulate all commerce, but limited that body to such as was interstate or foreign. An unexpected (and by many now believed erroneous) decision by the Supreme Court of the United States1 in 1869, that a contract between citizens of different states did not constitute interstate commerce, checked the growth of that unity of law so convenient in the development of industries, national in character. For one hundred years, from 1789, when the Constitution was adopted, to 1890, …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks--Equity--Insolvency--Preference of Creditors; Banks--Special or General Deposit; Constitutional law--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Right of Property; Contract--Liability for Breach in Discharge of a Professor; Corporations--Liability of Directors for Excessive Indebtedness; Criminal Law--Larceny Distinguished from False Pretenses; Criminal Law--Remarks of District Attorney--Appeals to Race Prejudice; Damages--Proper Averment in an Action for Deceit in the Sale of Realty; Easement--Right of Way--Immemorial Custom--Easements Appurtenant; Elections--Constitutionality of Law Changing Date--Holding Over; Evidence--Personal Injury--Physical Examination of Plaintiff; Evidence--Physical Examination of Accused; Evidence--Privileged Communication--County Attorney; Execution--Premature--Collateral Attack; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on Officer; Homestead--Oral Contract for Conveyance--Specific Performance; Husband and Wife--Liability of Husband for the Support …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks, National--Stockholders' Liability--Statute of Limitations; Bills and Notes--Indorsements Procured by Fraud; Carriers--Drover's pass--Release from Liability; Carriers--Unreasonable Freight Rates--Interstate Commerce Act--Common Law Remedy; Chattel Mortgages--Failure to Record--Mortgagor in Possession--Estoppel; Connecting Carriers--Loss of Goods--Liability; Constitutional Law--Civil Rights--Discrimination in Licenses; Constitutional Law--Eight Hour Law--Police Power--Health Regulations; Corporations--Duplicate Stock Certificate--Indemnity; Corporations--Subscription to Stock--Liability of Subscriber; Equity--Specific Performance--Contract to Make Will; Evidence--Physicians of conflicting Schools--Competency as Witnesses; Evidence--Radiograph--X-ray; Garnishment--One Railroad as Debtor of Another; Husband and Wife--Application of Doctrine of Tenancy by Entireties to Personality; Husband and Wife--Indebtedness to Wife--Notes--Presumption of Payment; Judgment--Default--appearance; Libel--Publishing of a White Man that He is "Colored"; Master and Servant--Concurrent …


Liability Of Water Companies For Fire Losses Another View, Albert Martin Kales May 1905

Liability Of Water Companies For Fire Losses Another View, Albert Martin Kales

Michigan Law Review

In the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, before Judge Arthur H. Frost, there was recently presented in substance this case: A private corporation furnishing water to a municipality for fire protection had contracted with the town, in consideration of certain fire hydrant rentals, to keep at all times a pressure of water of at least thirty-five pounds per square inch on the water pipes connected with said fire hydrants, and, in case of a fire, to increase, at once, the pressure to forty pounds per square inch. A fire occurred. It was assumed that the water company had notice …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bailments--Care Required of Agistor--Special Contracts; Bankruptcy--Trading Corporations--Hotels; Common Carriers--discrimination--Exclusive Depot Privileges; Conditional Sales--Street Railway Equipment--Rights of Vendor; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Equal Protection of the Amendment of the Federal Constitution and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights; Constitutional Law--Interference with Civil rights--Power of Congress to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment; Contempt of Court--Fraudulent Claims; Contract--Assignment; Contract to Indemnify Against negligence--Statutory Prohibition--Public Policy; Corporations--Sale of corporate Property to Directors--Validity; Damages--Remote; Deeds--Duress--Grantor in Possession; Deeds--Restriction Against Building Tenement House--Deeds--Standing Timber--Construction; Equity--Possession of Personal Property; Evidence--Hypothetical Question; Execution--Exemptions--Life Insurance; Fixtures--Mortgage--Distruction of Property; Foreign Corporations--Service of Summons of Officer of; Highway--Rights of Abutting Owner; Husband and Wife--Contracts--Effects of …


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;