Recent Important Decisions

Authors

Michigan Law Review

Abstract

Bills and Notes--Fictitious or Non-Existing Payee--Knowledge of Maker--English and American Views; Bills and Notes--Holder in Due Course; Carriers--Exemption from Liability for Negligence Under Special Contract; Colleges--Entrance Discriminations--Mandamus Not Remedy for Refusing Admission; Constitutional law--Aliens--Keeping for Immoral Purposes; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Licensing Itinerant Vendors; Constitutional Law--Legislative Power--Intoxicating Liquors--License System; Constitutional Law--Police Power--Intoxicating Liquors; Constitutional Law--Police Power--Ordinance Absolutely Prohibiting Billboards; Corporations--Ultra Vires--Organizing Another Corporation--Dissenting Stockholder; Deeds--Cancellation for Fraud--False Representations as to Intention; Deeds--Description--Parol Evidence to Explain Ambiguity; Deeds--Effect of Statute Abolishing the Use of Private Seals; Divorce--Adultery--Consent of Plaintiff; Elections--Qualification of Voters--Payment of Taxes--Payment by Unauthorized Person; Evidence--Privileged Communications--Professional Nurse and Patient; Health--Offering for Sale Cigarette Paper--Statutory Provisions--Interstate Commerce; Homestead--Those Entitled to --"Head of a Family"; Insurance--Speculative Life Insurance--Right to Proceeds; Intoxicating Liquors--Applicability of Ordinance Concerning Licenses to Clubs; Intoxicating Liquors--sale--License Effect of Bankruptcy of Licensee; Judgment--Entry on Sunday--Effect; Judgment--Obtained by Fraud--Direct or Collateral Attack; Master and Servant--Injuries to Servant--Nature of Defenses; Municipal Corporations--duty of Mayor to Enforce Laws--Control of Official Action by Mandamus; Municipal Corporation--Temporary Injunction to Restrain Prosecution Under a Municipal Ordinance--Modification; Municipal Corporations--Torts--Liability for Nuisance--Private and Governmental Function; Public Officers--Resignation--Revocability; Telegraphs and Telephones--Injuries from Construction and Maintenance--Care Required; Telephone companies--Right to Physical Use of the Properties of Another; Wills--Construction--Intent--Estate Granted, Fee Simple or Life Estate

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, Recent Important Decisions, 7 Mich. L. Rev. 683 (1909).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol7/iss8/4