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A New Deal For Fiduciaries' Stock Transfers, Alfred F. Conard

Michigan Law Review

For nearly one hundred years, executors and administrators have been struggling with the excessive documentation which corporations demand as a condition of recording stock transfers. For almost as long, legislatures have been passing laws in the hope-generally vain-of alleviating the burden.

In 1957, at least three states (and possibly four) opened a door through which estate representatives can emerge from their long bondage. For the first time, identical acts were passed in different states, and interstate recognition of simplification measures began. For the first time acts were passed which get to the root of the transfer agent's problem.

Municipal Corporations - Financial Powers - Power To Expend Public Funds In Aid Of Industry, Paul K. Gaston

Michigan Law Review

Taxpayers and voters of Frostburg, Maryland, sought to restrain the holding of an election under enabling legislation to obtain authority both to issue municipal bonds and to devote the proceeds to acquiring a site and contributing to the cost of construction of a building for sale to a private manufacturing company. The chancellor issued an injunction against the holding of such election on the ground that the enabling act, in authorizing the use of public funds for private purposes, was unconstitutional. On appeal, held, reversed. The location of new industry in furnishing employment and increasing the financial well being …

Municipal Corporations - Contracts - Ratification And Estoppel In Contracts Made By Unauthorized Agent, Edward M. Heppenstall

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff's infant daughter, admitted to Newark City Hospital as an emergency case, received hospitalization and medical treatment worth $1,190 during her seventy-day period of confinement. The medical director of the hospital had made an agreement with the Hospital Service Plan of New Jersey which provided that regardless of the amount or quality of the hospitalization required, payment of the flat sum of $100 for any subscriber-patient would constitute payment in full to the city. The city accepted the $100 check paid by the Plan as billed by the hospital for the care of the child. In order to facilitate settlement …

Municipal Corporations - Zoning - The Granting Of A Variance Based On Unnecessary Hardship, Frank D. Jacobs S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant purchased a tract of vacant land located in the most highly restricted residence zone of his city. The local zoning ordinance prescribed minimum area, width, and depth measurements for building plots in that district. Defendant desired to subdivide the property into two building plots in order to build a one-family residence on each plot. Although the first plot complied with the minimum requirements of the ordinance, the other plot was deficient in area and depth measurements. Defendant was unsuccessful in his attempts both to purchase adjoining land and to sell parts of his property to adjoining owners. He then …

Municipal Law, George G. Bailey

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Adequacy Of State Insurance Rate Regulation: The Mccarran-Ferguson Act In Historical Perspective, Spencer L. Kimball, Ronald N. Boyce

Michigan Law Review

Any substantial inquiry into the functioning of the insurance commissioner in American society poses the question, at the threshold of the inquiry, whether state regulatory power over the insurance business is likely to continue, or whether insurance will fall increasingly under the aegis of the federal government. This article seeks to ascertain the minimum conditions for the permanent preservation of state regulatory power over the insurance business, and to determine whether they are now satisfied. These conditions may be summarily stated: the Congress of the United States has shown its willingness to apply federal antitrust and marketing legislation to the …

Current Trends In State Legislation 1955-1956, University Of Michigan Law School

Michigan Legal Studies Series

This third volume in our Current Trends series contains an even dozen studies of recent state statutes. In our judgment each problem studied is unique enough to merit serious consideration by state legislatures and others interested in state legislative enactments. The purpose of these monographs is to call attention to these statutes and to provide a scholarly and objective appraisal and analysis of the problem involved and the solution adopted. We continue to think, as we did when we started this series, that there is a very real need for such studies of new state statutes and that our studies …

1958-1959 Rowan County (Ky.) Circuit Court Bail Bonds, Rowan County (Ky.) Circuit Court

Rowan County Circuit Court Ledgers

The bail bond of Rowan County (KY.) Circuit Court from July 1958 to June 1959.

Criminal Jurisdiction Of The Kentucky Courts: A Tentative Codification, Roy Mitchell Moreland

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1958, Volume 1, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1958, Volume 2, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Metro System Of Local Government (A Survey), Wilson G. Stapleton, Hugh E. Dunn, G. Brooks Earnest, A. B. Bonds Jr.

Cleveland State Law Review

Growth of many American cities into vast metropolitan communities of suburban cities, towns and villages clustered about the central city is creating complex problems of local government. Duplication of services and costs is matched by artificial "compartmentalization" of adjacent areas, all developing with little or no overall plan or logic.Herein, four outstanding community leaders examine the problem in terms of the situation in the Ohio area of Cuyahoga County, around the core city of Cleveland. Extracts from four speeches are set forth here, all delivered at a recent luncheon of the Cleveland-Marshall Alumni Association.

The Original Criminal Jurisdiction Of Courts In Kentucky, H. Wendell Cherry, Linza B. Inabnit

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A Widow's Dower Rights--Kentucky Dower Rights; On Intestacy Or Upon Renunciation Of Her Husband's Will, Nelson E. Shafer

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1958, Volume 1, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Book Review, Paul R. Donaldson

Cleveland State Law Review

Reviewing Charles S. Rhyne, Municipal Law, National Institute of Municipal law Officers, 1957

Constitutional Law - Due Process - Jurisdiction Of State Court Over Nonresident Tortfeasor, J. Martin Cornell

Michigan Law Review

The defendant, a resident of Wisconsin, was engaged in the business of selling appliances and sent one of his employees to deliver a gas cooking stove to the plaintiff in Illinois. Claiming that the employee had negligently injured him in unloading the stove, the plaintiff brought action in Illinois, seeking damages of $7,500. A summons was personally served on the defendant in Wisconsin, and the defendant appeared specially, moving to quash the summons on the ground that the Illinois statute, providing for extraterritorial service on any person who commits a tortious act within the state, contravened the constitutions of the …

Municipal Corporations - Tort Liability - Liability For Torts Committed By Municipal Employees In Exercise Of Governmental Functions, Ralph E. Boches

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff sued the Town of Cocoa Beach for damages for the alleged wrongful death of her husband. Plaintiff's husband had died of smoke suffocation after being locked in a jail which was left unattended by the city jailor. The lower court dismissed plaintiff's complaint. On appeal, held, reversed. A person injured by the negligence of a municipal employee acting within the scope of his employment may recover against the municipal corporation. Hargrove v. Town of Cocoa Beach, (Fla. 1957) 96 S. (2d) 130.

University Of Richmond Law Notes Table Of Contents

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Foreward, William T. Muse

University of Richmond Law Review

This first issue of the University of Richmond Law Notes inaugurates a service by the Faculty of the Law School which we hope will be of some value to the lawyers of Virginia. If the bar thinks the undertaking worth- while it will become a permanent publication,-perhaps enlarged in scope and volume.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1958, Volume 2, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

A Supplement To "Constitutionality Of Marketable Title Acts"-1951-1957, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

An article bearing the title, "Constitutionality of Marketable Title Acts," was published in December 1951. It was there pointed out that such legislation, of which the Michigan act is an example, should be found to be within constitutional limits. It was recognized, however, that direct authority was scarce and that cases that might be deemed pertinent were conflicting.

Constitutional Law - Executive Powers - Use Of Troops To Enforce Federal Laws, Robert H. Elliott Jr., S.Ed., Richard I. Singer S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The recent use of federal troops in Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce the order of a federal district court requiring school integration has occasioned widespread controversy throughout the nation. It is the purpose of this comment to examine the constitutionality of such action and to consider its broader implications with respect to federal-state and congressional-executive relationships.

State Power Over The Federal Contractor: A Problem In Federalism, Arthur S. Miller

Vanderbilt Law Review

In large measure both the federal officials, whose job it is to enter the commercial market to fulfill the government's material needs, and the federal contractor, wherever he may be and of whatever size he may be, tend to look upon attempts by states to tax or regulate with a skeptical eye. The state appears as some alien interloper whose activities result only in hardship and delay to the contractor and consequent annoyance and financial cost to the federal government. By and large, accordingly, a prevailing idea in the federal procurement circles seems to be that of avoiding, whenever possible, …

Municipal Corporations—Notice In Indemnification Action Against Public Corporation, Morton Levy

Buffalo Law Review

Valstrey Service Corporation v. Board of Elections, Nassau County, 2 N.Y.2d .113, 161 N.Y.S.2d 52 (1957).

Municipal Corporations—Local Bill—Unconstitutional, Richard O. Robinson

Buffalo Law Review

Cutler v. Herman, 3 N.Y.2d 334, 165 N.Y.S.2d 449 (1957).

Municipal Corporations—Lodging Houses—Accessory To Hospital Use, Thomas Rosinski

Buffalo Law Review

DeMott v. Notey, 3 N.Y.2d 116, 164 N.Y.S.2d 398 (1957).

Municipal Corporations—Municipal Disposal Of Garbage—Governmental Function, Thomas Rosinski

Buffalo Law Review

Nehrbas v. Incorporated Village of Lloyd Harbor, 2 N.Y.2d 190, 159 N.Y.S.2d 145 (1957).

Municipal Corporations—Zoning Laws—Aesthetic Considerations, Robert Kaiser

Buffalo Law Review

Presnell v. Leslie, 3 N.Y.2d 384, 165 N.Y.S.2d 488 (1957).

Municipal Corporations—Covenants Running With The Land—Town Law, Richard O. Robinson

Buffalo Law Review

Atlantic Beach Property Owners' Association v. Town of Hempstead, 3 N.Y.2d 434, 165 N.Y.S.2d 737 (1957).