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Departure From Precedent, H W. Humble
Departure From Precedent, H W. Humble
Michigan Law Review
With the death of the reason for it, every legal doctrine dies.' * * * The fact that the reason for a given rule perished long ago is no just excuse for refusing now to declare the rule itself abrogated, but rather the greater justification for so declaring; and if no, reason ever existed, that fact furnishes additional justification. The doctrine of stare decisis does not preclude a departure from precedent established by a series of decisions clearly erroneous, unless property complications have resulted and a reversal would work a greater injury and injustice than would ensue by following the …
Note And Comment, Albert G. Guetz, Edson R. Sunderland, Herman A. August, Edwin C. Goddard, Paul W. Gordon
Note And Comment, Albert G. Guetz, Edson R. Sunderland, Herman A. August, Edwin C. Goddard, Paul W. Gordon
Michigan Law Review
Declaratory Judgments - The widespread interest in this ntw form of remedial instrument, which was. somewhat dashed by the recent decision of the Michigan Supreme. Court 'n Amwmy v. Grand Ropds.Ry. Co. (r920), 211 Mich. 59, holding declaritoty relief to b! non-judicial and -outside the constitutional power of 'courts (9ig MicH. LAw Rzv. 86), has been revived by the action of'the legislature of. Kansas in enacting a derlaratory judgment statute almost identical with the .Michigan act.. This was done with full knowledge of the decision in the .4mmy case, and inasmuch -as it is well known that some of the …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Adverse Possession - Possession in One County Carries Possession to Claimed Boundaries in Another County - In an action of ejectment for a tract oft land lying in two counties, the defendant claimed title'by adverse possession undi- color of tiae. The question was whether actual possession in one county woul4 " give constructive possession in the other county. Hel, since the enactment of Section"6, Civil Code, allowing an action for ihe recovery of real property to be brought in the county in which the land -lie, ot any part thereof, actual possession in one couty, gives constructive possession in- the …
Damage Liability Of Charitable Institutions, Carl Zollman
Damage Liability Of Charitable Institutions, Carl Zollman
Michigan Law Review
The question of the liability of charitable institutions to actions for damages presents great difficulties. This is not due how- -ever to a lack of cases. The question has peculiarly "engaged the attention of the bench and bar of the country. The problem has been scrutinized from every conceivable viewpoint. The arguments for and against have well nigh been exhausted, and little, if anything, new remains to be advanced".' In their opinions the courts have frequently gone back to certain English cases disregarding the points decided but stressing certain dicta which have been uttered by the judges which decided them. …
Note And Comment, Alan W. Boyd, Ralph E. Gault, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edwin C. Goddard
Note And Comment, Alan W. Boyd, Ralph E. Gault, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edwin C. Goddard
Michigan Law Review
The Permanent International Court of Justice - For the first time in history leading powers both great and small have been able to agree upon a plan for an international court of justice. The plan was formulated last summer by an advisory committee of jurists sitting at The Hague. Since then it has been submitted to the Council and the Assembly of the League of Nations and has been approved. It will come into operation as soon as the project has been ratified by a majority of the nations belonging to the League
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Acknowledgment - Under a Statute Regulating Acknowledgments by Married Women - An Examination Made Over Telephone is not Sufficient - In a question involving the validity of a mortgage deed, it appeared that the acknowledgment of a Mrs. Bertholf had been taken by means of telephone. The court, in construing the Idaho statute regulating acknowledgments of married women, held that the clear intent of the statute was that all acknowledgments should be taken in person before the magistrati, and any attempted acknowledgment not taken in person, though correct in form and without suspicion of fraud, was void, being beyond the …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Automobiles - Constitutionality of Statute Making Owner Liable for Injury Caused by Another's Negligent Driving The automobile of D, driven negligently by his fifteen-year-old son. injured P. In an action for damages, D offered evidence that his son took and was driving the automobile against his express orders. Held, such evidence is not admissible in view of PUBLIc AcTs or 1915, No. 302, Sec. 29, providing that if the motor vehicle is being driven at the time of the injury by an immediate member of the owner's family it shall be conclusively presumed that it was with the owner's consent …
Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Victor H. Lane, William C. O'Keefe, Evans Holbrook
Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Victor H. Lane, William C. O'Keefe, Evans Holbrook
Michigan Law Review
Baseball and the Judiciary - The acceptance by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of the position of supreme arbiter of professional baseball, as recently announced, raises questions of good taste if not of propriety. It has been generally assumed that Judges of the District Court of the United States have their hands amply full if they do the work incumbent upon them in a way befitting a judge of the United States. It may well be true that the salary provided by the Government is grossly inadequate, but we dare say that no one has considered that the remedy for such …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Animals - Knowledge of Vicious Propensity - Owner not Liable for Dog Upsetting Ford - The defendant's dog had been in the habit of following and barking at automobiles, and this fact was known to the defendant. The plaintiff was riding with her husband in a Ford car, when suddenly the defendant's dog jumped in front of them. By running over the dog, the car was thrown against an embankment and the plaintiff was injured. Held, that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, there being no evidence of a vicious propensity in the dog. Melicker v. Sedlacek (Iowa, i92o), …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Adoption - Right to Inherit from Foster Parents Not Lost by Readoption by Natural Father - In an adopted child's action against the natural children of foster parents and their assigns for the partition of real estate, where it appeared that the child had been re-adopted by the natural father, and where it appeared that she had stood by while the natural children sold the property to the co-defendants, it was held that the right to inherit from the foster parents was not lost by the readoption by the natural father and that she was nct estopped to assert her …
Note And Comment, Alan W. Boyd, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin C. Goddard, Edgar N. Durfee, Ralph W. Aigler
Note And Comment, Alan W. Boyd, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin C. Goddard, Edgar N. Durfee, Ralph W. Aigler
Michigan Law Review
James H. Brewster - Thousands of alumni and former students of the Law School will learn with deep regret of the sudden death of Professor Brewster in Denver, Colorado, on October 7, 1920.
Equitable Defenses Under Modern Codes, E W. Hinton
Equitable Defenses Under Modern Codes, E W. Hinton
Michigan Law Review
An equitable defense to a legal right of action involves a contradiction in terms. Either the equity is no defense at all, or it has become a legal defense.
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Bills and Notes - "Fictitious Payee" - Payee a Person Not Intended to Have Any Interest - A member of a firm, authorized to sign the firm's name, made checks payable to an existing association, which he did not intend should ever gain possession of or have any interest in such checks, merely for the purpose of obtaining money for himself, which he did by unlawfully indorsing the association's name to the checks. The plaintiff firm now seek to recover the amount of the checks, charged to their account by the defendant bank, and the defense is that the payee …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Adverse Possession - Color of Title - Deed Color of Title Although Known not to Convey Title - In a suit for trespass the land which the plaintiff claimed to own was in part occupied by plaintiff's church building and the adjoining lot was used by the members of the church for hitching iheir horses and for picnics, etc. Both tracts had been so used by the plaintiff for twenty-five years or more. The land was conveyed by A to plaintiff, by deed recorded, describing the land purported to be conveyed. The defendant claimed that the deed did not operate …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Accretion - Title to New Land - Encroachment of Watercourse Upon Lands Beyond - D's lands were bounded on the east by a river and on the west by the land of P. By erosion the river slowly shifted until all of D's tract was washed away as well as part of P's holding. The river then slowly receded and the land of P was built up as was also new land east of the former boundary of P and D. P brings an action to quiet title for the land newly formed. Held, title to the land in dispute …
Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. White, Grover C. Grismore, Edwin C. Goddard
Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. White, Grover C. Grismore, Edwin C. Goddard
Michigan Law Review
Deeds Delivered Conditionally to the Grantee - Generally courts have shown a commendable disposition to get away from the formalism, which in the past played such a large part in determination of questions of delivery. While the actual tradition of the instrument to the grantee or to someone on his behalf, on the one hand, or its retention in the hands of the maker, on the other, is still very important evidentially, such facts are not by any means controlling. Thus it is entirely possible for a deed to be delivered though it never has been out of the grantor's …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Adverse Possession - Tenants in Common - Inception of Hostility - A father died leaving seven children as heirs to his farm. Since 1883, the plaintiff, who was the eldest son. had been in continuous and exclusive Dossession, paying all the taxes and taking all the profits without rendering any account to his co-heirs. Before 1883, the plaintiff had rebuilt the house on the premises, and in xgoi, he built a barn on the place. In a suit to quiet title, it was held, that it was a permissible inference from all the evidence that the plaintiff had gained title …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Acknowledgement - Liability of Notary - Where the defendant, a notary, certified that certain impersonators of the grantors were known to him, and that they were the persons who executed the deeds, and the plaintiff who accepted the deeds as security for a loan in reliance upon the certificate of the notary was defrauded, held, the defendant was guilty of negligence and must respond in damages for not fulfilling the requirements of Sec. i185 of the Civil Code: that "the acknowledgment of an instrument must not be taken, unless the officer taking it knows or has satisfactory evidence, on the …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Abatement and Revival - Pendency of Another Action Ground for Dismissal - Plaintiff brought an action in B county to recover damages as the result of a collision between his truck and defendants automobile. The defendant had previously brought an action in P county, where he resided, against the plaintiff, for damages arising out of the same collision, which action was pending when the latter was begun. Defendant filed a plea setting up the pendency of his own action in P county and moved to dismiss plaintiff's action. Motion denied. Defendant appealed. Held, the action should have been dismissed. Allen …
Note And Comment, Joseph H. Drake, Grover C. Grismore, Victor H. Lane, Edgar N. Durfee, Robert G. Day
Note And Comment, Joseph H. Drake, Grover C. Grismore, Victor H. Lane, Edgar N. Durfee, Robert G. Day
Michigan Law Review
Epithetical Jurisprudence and the Annexation of Fixtures - If we begin with all the facts of a controversy and proceed inductively to determine the rights of the parties litigant, we thus arrive at a jurisprudence of rights, whereas, if we reason deductively from a rule, a definition, or a maxim of law to its application in the facts of our case, we can at best attain only a jurisprudence of rules, which has been so aptly characterized as an epithetical jurisprudence. The subject of fixtures is one in which we have great difficulty in applying the inductive method because the …
Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Victor H. Lane
Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Victor H. Lane
Michigan Law Review
Public Utility Valuation - Cost of Reproduction Theory and the World War - The very grave objections to the cost-of-reproduction theory of valuation of public utilities was pointed out at large in 15 MICH. L. REv. 2o5. The violent price changes following the World War have greatly increased the weight of these objections to calling anything a base which rests on such uncertainties and fluctuations as cost-of-reproduction. A base should be stable, but this has the stability Of a flying machine. There had been a rising curve of costs from 1893 to 1i16, but since that date the rise has …
Note And Comment, Arvid B. Tanner, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Ben B. Matthews, Lewis H. Mattern
Note And Comment, Arvid B. Tanner, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Ben B. Matthews, Lewis H. Mattern
Michigan Law Review
Willard Titus Barbour.- Legal scholarship in America suffered a grievous loss in the death of Willard T. Barbour, Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law in the Yale Law School on March 2, 1920. Indeed it is not too much to say that his loss will be felt wherever the English Common Law holds its sway, for he had dipped deep into the obscured origins of Equity Jurisdiction during his study at Oxford and in London, and was but at the beginning of a series of studies and lectures which would ultimately have developed into a comprehensive book, throwing light not …
Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Joseph H. Drake, Lester E. Waterbury, Louis Kawin, Ralph W. Aigler, Rolla L. Carpenter
Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Joseph H. Drake, Lester E. Waterbury, Louis Kawin, Ralph W. Aigler, Rolla L. Carpenter
Michigan Law Review
Liability of Manufacturer to Remote Vendee for Defective Automobile Wheel - Plaintiff. in February. 19O. purchased from the Utica Motor Car Company, a Cadillac six-passenger touring car, manufactured by the Cadillac Motor Car Company, of Michigan. The Utica company was a dealer in motor cars, and purchased to resell; it was the original vendee, and the plaintiff was the sub-vendee.
Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Louis Kawin, Robert G. Day
Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Louis Kawin, Robert G. Day
Michigan Law Review
Escheat - How State Acquires Title - Escheat is of feudal origin, and properly applied only to land which on failure of heirs or for certain other reasons, "fell in" to the lord under whom it had been held. Personal property without an owner, as bona vacantia, became the property of the crown. In re Bond [Igo1] i Ch. 15. In the United States escheat is used more broadly, but usually arises when the owner of property dies intestate without heirs. Our'alienage laws have generally removed disabilities of aliens to take, but in some jurisdictions there may still be escheat …
Note And Comment, Edgar N. Durfee, Edwin C. Goddard, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
Note And Comment, Edgar N. Durfee, Edwin C. Goddard, Horace Lafayette Wilgus
Michigan Law Review
Effect at the Situs Rei of a Decree Ordering Conveyance of Foreign Land - In a recent article in this Review, Prof. Willard Barbour discussed the question indicated by the above title. His cbnclusions may be-briefly slated as follows: that such a decree of a competent court having jurisdiction of the person of the defendant creates a personal obligation upon the defendant which a court of equity at the situs should enforce just as it w9uld a contract or trust concerning this land made in the foreign jurisdiction: and that, as between the States of this Union. the "full faith …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Banks and Banking - Negotiable Instruments - Indorsement of Forged Check - Plaintiff, nowing that the one who signed the drawer's name was not the drawer herself, but not knowing further of signer's lack of authority, presented a check drawn on defendant bank in which bank the supposed drawer had an account but not sufficient to cover the check. The check was payable to plaintiff and indorsed by him and was placed to his credit in the bank. After discovering the forgery defendant charged tle check to plaintiff's account. Plaintiff objected to such charge. Held, that the defendant might repudiate …
Judicial System Of Michigan Under Governor And Judges, W L. Jenks
Judicial System Of Michigan Under Governor And Judges, W L. Jenks
Michigan Law Review
When the Territory of Michigan came into existence July i, 1805, it found a system of jurisprudence in operation which had been adopted by the Governor and Judges of the Northwest Territory from the laws of Pennsylvania, due no doubt, to the fact that Gov. Arthur St. Clair had lived some years in that State, had been a member of its Board of Censors, a magistrate, and was familiar with its judicial system which provided a-Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in each county composed of Justices of the Peace, a Court of Common Pleas in each County, …
Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Jospeh H. Drake, Ralph W. Aigler, Victor H. Lane
Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Jospeh H. Drake, Ralph W. Aigler, Victor H. Lane
Michigan Law Review
The Law School- The year 1919-1920 opens with 336 sudents enrolled. These are classified as follows: Third year--85; second year--W; first year -149; special-s. As compared with 65 enrolled a year ago the present attendance is gratifying. Preliminary applscations point to a large number of entering students in February.
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Boundaries - Property Conveyed - Half of "Lot" Street - Plaintiff and defendants own, respectively, the easterly and westerly halves of "lot 17" of a certain tract of land. Defendants' deed described the land conveyed to them as the "westerly one-half of lot 17" of said tract, according to a recorded map, which indicated that the western boundary of lot 17 is the center line of an avenue 6o feet wide. Plaintiff sues to quiet title to a strip of land i5 feet wide adjacent to the center line of said lot. Held, that the 3o-foot strip covered by the …
Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Charles L. Kaufman, Edwin D. Dickinson, Lester S. Hecht, Leon L. Greenbaum
Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Charles L. Kaufman, Edwin D. Dickinson, Lester S. Hecht, Leon L. Greenbaum
Michigan Law Review
Judicial Reform in Michigan - The legislature which has been in regular session this year has enacted a measure enlarging the scope of judicial action in a way likely to add very greatly to the iusefulness of the courts. This law authorizes courts of record to make binding declarations of the rights of parties prior to the commission of a wrongful act