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International Law--State Immunity--Waiver--Execution May 1931

International Law--State Immunity--Waiver--Execution

Michigan Law Review

Some interesting illustrations in the field of state immunity have been afforded by the litigation arising out of a contract made by the Swedish State Railways Administration (Kunglig Jamvagsstyrelsen) to buy coal from the American firm of Dexter and Carpenter, shortly after the War. Although the contract was on "c.i.f." terms, the National City Bank, in which funds for the payment for the coal had been deposited, paid for part of this coal- upon presentation of insurance certificates instead of policies. As a consequence, when one shipment of the coal was lost at sea, the Railways were unable to recover …


Conflict Of Laws-Foreign Tort-Survival Of Action May 1931

Conflict Of Laws-Foreign Tort-Survival Of Action

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, defendant, and defendant's intestate were all residents of Minnesota. Plaintiff was injured in Wisconsin due to the negligence of the defendant's intestate. Under Wisconsin statute (Laws of Wis., 1927, sec. 287.01) such cause of action survived against the estate of the wrongdoer. By express statute in Minnesota (Minn. Gen. Stat. 1923, sec. 9656) the rule of the common law applied to such actions and they abated on the death of the wrongdoer. Plaintiff sued the defendant executor in Minnesota. Held, that the lex loci delicti governed and the action did not abate. Chubbuck v. Holloway (Minn. 1931) 234 …


Process--Privilige Of Nonresident Attorney Apr 1931

Process--Privilige Of Nonresident Attorney

Michigan Law Review

The defendant, an attorney at law and resident of Minnesota, came into Wisconsin to take depositions to be used in suits pending in Minnesota. Upon arrival he and the witnesses were served with an injunction restraining the taking of the depositions. While awaiting a hearing upon the injunction, in which he intended to appear in his own behalf and as attorney for the witnesses, personal service of a Wisconsin summons in the instant action was made upon him, naming as defendants himself and the law firm of which he was a member. A motion to set aside the service of …


Landlord And Tenant-Interference With Possession Of Tenant As Basis For Suit By Landlord-Injunction Apr 1931

Landlord And Tenant-Interference With Possession Of Tenant As Basis For Suit By Landlord-Injunction

Michigan Law Review

In the recent case of Petty v. Langan the South Dakota court granted to a landlord an injunction restraining a third party who claimed the right to a lease, "from going upon the land or interfering witμ the right of plaintiff and his tenant to the possession thereof." No authority was cited by the court for the position it took, and the result is hard to square with orthodox views, but the holding appears sound on principle and desirable.


Broad Counterclaims As Means Of Obtaining Jurisdiction Over Nonresidents Mar 1931

Broad Counterclaims As Means Of Obtaining Jurisdiction Over Nonresidents

Michigan Law Review

Broad counterclaim statutes are desirable because they allow cross demands to compensate each other, and because they avoid multiplicity of suits. These two advantages are alone sufficient to justify broad counterclaims, but there is a further advantage in that a broad counterclaim statute permits a resident in a suit brought against him by a nonresident to set up any independent claim against that nonresident which-he may have without prosecuting a separate action. Not only is it a heavier expense to bring a separate action, but it is often impossible to do so without going to the domicil of the nonresident …


Trusts - Cancellation - Beneficiaries As Necessary Parties Mar 1931

Trusts - Cancellation - Beneficiaries As Necessary Parties

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff deeded property to the defendants in trust, for herself for life and on her death to certain named persons. Plaintiff sued the defendants alone for revocation on the ground of fraud and duress. Held, the issue of fraud could not be tried in the absence of the living cestuis. McKnight v. Bank of N. Y. & Trust Co., 254 N. Y. 417, 173 N.E. 568.


Contempt-Punishment Of One Not A Party To An Injunction Mar 1931

Contempt-Punishment Of One Not A Party To An Injunction

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff sued A and B for infringement of patent rights. The suit was dismissed as to A and B testified that the business was solely his. A decree was then entered against B, "his agents, employees, associates and confederates * * *," which enjoined them from "infringing, or aiding or abetting, or in any way contributing to the infringement * * *" of the patents. When the decree was entered, A was an employee of B, but subsequently A left B's employ, began his own business, and infringed the patent. The plaintiff began contempt proceedings against A in the …


Recent Cases, F. G. H. Feb 1931

Recent Cases, F. G. H.

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Pleading-Limitations Of Actions Feb 1931

Pleading-Limitations Of Actions

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff's complaint, both as to the action for breach of warranty in the sale of condensed milk, and for a running account between October 17, 1917, and March 20, 1920, was drawn up in such a manner that in so far as the facts alleged in the complaint were concerned, the causes of action might have accrued. more than six years before this suit was started, that is, while it did not appear on the face of the complaint that the causes of action accrued more than six years prior to the bringing of this suit, yet, from all …


Parent And Child-Education As A Necessary Feb 1931

Parent And Child-Education As A Necessary

Michigan Law Review

Defendant owned a farm where he and his family lived. He owned a car, paid his bills, and lived as comfortably as the average farmer. He provided piano lessons for his twelve-year old daughter, who showed an aptitude for music and was the pianist, of the neighborhood. For tuning a piano at the request of defendant's wife and daughter, plaintiff recovered a judgment of five dollars, based on a verdict that tuning the piano was a necessary for which defendant was liable. Held, that the amount being easily within the means of the father and the service necessary if …


Cases On Pleadings And Procedure, Mason Ladd Feb 1931

Cases On Pleadings And Procedure, Mason Ladd

Michigan Law Review

A review of CASES ON PLEADINGS AND PROCEDURE By Charles E. Clark.


Injunctions In California, William Consiglia Jan 1931

Injunctions In California, William Consiglia

Student Theses

No maxim is more firmly rooted in English and American
jurisprudence than the one which, given a free translation,
decries that, "no wrong shall exist without a remedy."
In conformity with the spirit of this ancient maxim, when
the English Lord Chancellors of former times found the
common-law writs inadequate to redress particular
grievance, they invented an extraordinary remedy
to which they afterwards frequently resorted, but
cautiously, to meet the exigencies of such cases as
they arose, to prevent hardship and injustice. They
viewed such extraordinary forms of relief very much
as the medical profession does poisonous antidotes,
to be …


Defamation-Privileged Occasion Publication To A Clerk Or Stenographer Jan 1931

Defamation-Privileged Occasion Publication To A Clerk Or Stenographer

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Covenants--Mistake Of Law--Warranty Against Jan 1931

Covenants--Mistake Of Law--Warranty Against

Michigan Law Review

The Municipal Metallic Bed Mfg. Co. leased a building from Dobbs in reliance on his representation that it was not illegal to manufacture in said building, and the lease contained a warranty to that effect, and a promise to indemnify the Bed Co. for any loss sustained in case it should prove illegal to use the building for the purpose intended. It later proved that due to the New York building code the building could not be used for manufacturing, and the Bed. Co. sued for the loss it sustained as a result. Held, plaintiff could recover on the …


Quasi-Contracts -- Recovery For Legal Services Rendered Under Champertous Contract Jan 1931

Quasi-Contracts -- Recovery For Legal Services Rendered Under Champertous Contract

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff agreed to render legal services to defendant in an action to recover a farm, payment to be either $5,000 in cash or one-third of the appraised value of the farm at the time of a judgment in defendant's favor. The defendant recovered, but refused to pay the plaintiffs anything on the ground that the contract was in violation of a Maine statute forbidding prosecution of a suit on shares. Plaintiff sued in assumpsit for the value of services rendered and expenses incurred. Held, the contract was illegal and so no relief of any nature would be granted. Hinckley …


Master And Servant-Parent And Child-Liability Of Master When Servant Negligently Injures His Own Son Dec 1930

Master And Servant-Parent And Child-Liability Of Master When Servant Negligently Injures His Own Son

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff was injured through the negligence of his father who was employed by the defendant. The parent was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the injury. Held, plaintiff could recover from his father's employer, even though the child could not have sued his father. Chase v. New Haven Waste Material Corporation (Conn. 1930) 150 Atl. 107.


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.


Table Of Cases Discussed, Anon Nov 1930

Table Of Cases Discussed, Anon

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Limitation Of Actions-Effect Of Fraudulent Concealment Nov 1930

Limitation Of Actions-Effect Of Fraudulent Concealment

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff sued in equity for a money judgment on defendant's promissory notes. Defendant had fraudulently represented that her husband's estate was liable on these notes, inducing plaintiff to sue the estate and thus delay for more than six years in starting suit against defendant. Plaintiff had sued defendant at law on the notes, defendant had pleaded the statute of limitations, and plaintiff had discontinued. Held, that plaintiff could recover a money judgment in equity, since the remedy at law was barred by the statute of limitations. Dodds v. McColgan (N. Y. App. Div., 1930) 241 N. Y. S. 584.


Quasi-Contracts-Dutiful Intervention-Discharge Of Public Officer's Duty Nov 1930

Quasi-Contracts-Dutiful Intervention-Discharge Of Public Officer's Duty

Michigan Law Review

By statute in Montana the boards of county commissioners were ordered to cause such highways as were necessary for the public welfare to be "laid out, recorded, opened" and maintained. A highway was laid out through the plaintiff's land in 1903, but the county commissioners refused to continue constructing it though requested to do so by the plaintiff, instead compelling him to remove the fences on his property. His entire land being thus thrown open to the public, he constructed the road himself in 1926, with the knowledge of the commissioners, who on its completion immediately accepted it but refused …


Recent Cases, S. L. Jun 1930

Recent Cases, S. L.

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Recent Cases, J. F. Apr 1930

Recent Cases, J. F.

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Injunction To Restrain Plaintiff's Bringing Suite In Another Jurisdictions Apr 1930

Injunction To Restrain Plaintiff's Bringing Suite In Another Jurisdictions

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Pleading-Joinder Of Parties And Action Mar 1930

Pleading-Joinder Of Parties And Action

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Cases, L. P. M. Jan 1930

Recent Cases, L. P. M.

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Case Comments, Kentucky Law Journal Jan 1930

Case Comments, Kentucky Law Journal

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recent Cases, A. O. Oct 1929

Recent Cases, A. O.

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Table Of Cases Discussed, Anon Oct 1929

Table Of Cases Discussed, Anon

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Recent Cases, A. O. Aug 1929

Recent Cases, A. O.

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Recent Cases, M. A. M. May 1929

Recent Cases, M. A. M.

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.