Recent Important Decisions

Authors

Michigan Law Review

Abstract

Bankruptcy--Trustee's Right to Enforce Stockholder's Statutory Liability; Bills and Notes--Failure of Consideration--When Maker is Estopped From Pleading It; Bills and Notes--Instrument Payable After Death--Whether Valid Obligation or of a Testamentary Character; Carriers--Interstate and Intrastate Commerce; Carriers--Regulations Relative to Shipment of Live Stock; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of Laws--Foreign Corporations--Statute Forfeiting Right to Do Business; Constitutional law--Police Power--Personal Liberty--Photographing Persons Charged With Crime; Contempt--Murder of Prisoner Pending His Appeal; Counties--Action by Taxpayer--Compensation of Attorney; Criminal Law--What Constitutes a Disorderly House; Damages--Allowance of Attorney's Fees--rule in Hadley v. Baxendale Applied; Eminent Domain--Taking or Damaging Property--Noise and Smoke From Operation of Railroad; Equity--Illegal Contract--Duty of Court; Evidence--Parol Evidence Contradicting Recital as to Indorser's Liability; Evidence--Res Gestae--Statement Made by Agent Shortly After Accident; Homestead--Breach of Contract to Convey--Contract not Signed by Wife; Husband and Wife--Wife's Separate Personal Estate--Liability of Wife on Notes Made by Her; Infants--Executed Contract--Time and Conditions of Disaffirmance; Injunction--Interference with Police Supervision; Insurance--"Actual Cash Value at the Time Loss Occurs"; Insurance--Effect of Condition Against Chattel Mortgages--Mortgage on Part of Goods Only; Libel--Actionable Publication--Advertisement Containing Portrait and False Endorsement of Whiskey; Master and Servant--Injury to Servant--Proximate Cause--Vicious Animals--Assumption of Risk; Master and Servant--Servant's Abandonment of Employment--Several Contract; Mortgages--Passing of After Acquired Title; Municipal Corporations--Delegation of Powers--Money to Cover Expense of Making Investigations Placed at Disposal of Mayor; Municipal Corporations--Removal of Officer by Reducing Salary--Interference of Court; Principal and Agent--Notice--Facts Putting on Inquiry; Sales--Conditional Sale--Distinguished From Lease; Sale--Right of Rescission--Reasonable Time;

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, Recent Important Decisions, 8 Mich. L. Rev. 53 (1909).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol8/iss1/6