Recent Important Decisions

Authors

Michigan Law Reviw

Abstract

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 of Statute--Constitutional Law; Elections--Change in Date as Affecting Previous Term--Holding Over; Equity--Removal of Clouds from Title--Injunction Restraining Action of Ejectment; Evidence--Accomplice--Uncorroborated Testimony; Evidence--Admission of One Conspirator Against a Co-Conspirator; Garnishment--Exemption from Execution on--Waiver of Lien; Insurance--Construction of "Loss Payable" Indorsement--Agency; Irrigation--Abandonment of Community Ditch--Rights of Minority; Landlord and Tenant--Renewal of Lease--Trade Fixtures--Removal; Master and Servant--Noncompliance with Factory Law--Assumption of Risk; Municipal corporations--Grant to Water Company not Exclusive--Construction of Contract; Municipal Corporations--Liability for Negligence of Fire Department; Negligence--Parent's Negligence Not Imputed to Child; Sales--Wagering Contracts--Dealings in Futures--Question of Intention; Suretyship--Res Judicata--Surety Estopped by Judgment Against Principal; Taxation--Officers' Fees--Uniformity; Telegram--Interstate Commerce--Penalty by State Statute for Non-Delivery; Vendor and Purchaser--Covenant--Rights of Covenantee who Buys Apparent Paramount Title; Vendor and Purchaser--Statements of Fact and of Opinion; Wills--Right to Direct Disposal of Body--Impossibility of Performance of Testator's Directions;

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Reviw, Recent Important Decisions, 4 Mich. L. Rev. 147 (1905).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol4/iss2/4