Recent Important Decisions

Authors

Michigan Law Review

Abstract

Appearance--appeal from Action in Rem as General Appearance; Bankruptcy--Suit by Trustee--Right to Trial by Jury; Bills and Notes--Draft by Agent on Principal--Necessity of Acceptance; Carriers--Merchandise as Baggage--Notice; Constitutional Law--Impairing Obligation of Contract--Clause of Insurance Contract Limiting the Time in Which to Bring Action; Constitutional Law--Invalidating Existing Contracts for Free Transportation; Contracts--Mutual Promises--Independent or Conditional; Courts--Supreme Court--Jurisdiction--Mandamus to Compel Entry of Judgment by Lower Court; Eminent Domain--Damages; Evidence--Confession of an Alleged Accomplice; Evidence--Statutes--Enrolled bill as Evidence; Homestead--Does Joinder of Wife to Release Dower Bar Her Homestead Right?; Insurance--Increase of Hazard; Libel and slander--Absolute Privilege--Judicial Proceedings; Parent and Child--May Parent Authorize Agent to "Kidnap" Child?; Quo Warrento--When Lies--Jurisdiction of Municipality; Railroads--Separate Accommodations for White and Colored Races--Duty to Furnish; States--Adjustment of Public Debt Between Virginia and West Virginia; Torts--Personal Rights--Right of Privacy; Trusts--Release--Mistake of Law--right of Relief; Trusts--Trusts Ex Malificio--Establishment

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, Recent Important Decisions, 9 Mich. L. Rev. 611 (1911).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol9/iss7/3