Volume 55

1956-57

Issue 1

Torts - Libel and Slander - Calling a Person a Communist as Slader Per Se - Ross Kipka S.Ed.
Periodical Index - Michigan Law Review
Wu: Fountain of Justice - Thomas E. Davitt S.J.
Restitution - Waiver of Tort and Suit in Assumpsit - Amount of Recovery Where There Has Been a Sale - Charles B. Renfrew S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - Criminal Law - Power of Federal Government to Commit Mentally Incompetent Persons Charged with Federal Crimes - William C. Becker S.Ed.
Corporations - Dividends - New Jersey Dividend Credit for Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock - John A. Beach S.Ed.
Bankruptcy - Limitations on Availability to Corporations of Arrangement Proceedings - Hazen V. Hatch S.Ed.
Regulation of Business - Sherman Act - Administration and Enforcement - A Re-Analysis of Consent Decrees - Paul R. Haerle S.Ed.
Transfers of Joint Property in Contemplation of Death: A Call for Immediate Statutory Revision - L. Hart Wright
Constitutional Law - Courts-Martial - Power of Congress to Provide for Military Jurisdiction Over Civilians - Whitmore Gray S.Ed.
Dispositions of Property to Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations - Harold A.J. Ford
Estoppel and Crown Privilege in English Administrative Law - Bernard Schwartz
Morris & Leach: The Rule Against Perpetuities - William F. Fratcher
Recent Books - Michigan Law Review
Negligence - Duty of Care - Duration of Status of "Driver" for Puropses of Guest Statute - George Kircos
Corporations - Statutes Providing for Both Cumulative Voting and Classified Boards - David W. Swanson S.Ed.
Corporations - Employee Stock Option Plans - Nature of Consideration Required for Valid Plan - Richard E. Day
Constitutional Law - Freedom of Religion - Fluoridation of City Water - John M. Webb S.Ed.
Corporations - Officers and Directors - Agreement Interfering with Management by Board of Directors - Edward H. Hoenicke S.Ed.

Issue 2

Constitutional Law - Eminent Domain - Condemnation of Riparian Lands Under the Commerce Power - George F. Lynch S.Ed.
Regulation of Business - Jurisdiction of the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Trade Commission - Investigations in the Interest of the Public - Robert W. Steele S.Ed.
Patents - Misuse Doctrine - Exclusive Distributorship Agreements as Patent Misuse - Howard N. Nemerovski
Negligence - Breach of Duty - Assured Clear Distance Ahead Doctrine - Herbert A. Bernhard
Constitutional Law - Grand Jury Under the Fifth Amendment Indictments Not Subject to Attack on Evidentiary Ground - Jerome K. Walsh, Jr. S.Ed.
Dispositions of Property to Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations - Harold A.J. Ford
Conflicts of Law - Extended Application of Res Judicata in Administration of Decedents' Estates - Norman A. Zilber S.Ed.
Administrative Officers' Tort Liability - Kenneth Culp Davis
Morgan: Some Problems of Proof Under the Anglo-American System of Litigation - Roy R. Ray
Labor Law - Labor Management Relations Act - Unfair Labor Practice Strike Permitted During Sixty-Day "Cooling-Off" Period - Edward C. Hanpeter S.Ed.
Torts - Nuisance - Personal Annoyance as Sole Injury - Michael Scott
Parsons, Penn, Raup: Land Tenure - John C. Payne
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Secret Withdrawals of Corporate Receipts by Stockholders as Income in Absence of Surplus - Kenneth H. Haynie S.Ed.
Compelling the Testimony of Political Deviants - O. John Rogge
Periodical Index - Michigan Law Review
Corporations - Securities Regulation - Material Misstatements of Omissions of Fact Under the Securities Act of 1933 - Eric E. Bergsten S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - Privilege Against Self-Incrimination -Effect of Immunity Statute - Paul A. Heinen S.Ed.
Negligence - Breach of Duty - Liability of Telephone Company for Failure to Relay Fire Alarm - Cyril Moscow S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - Due Process - Notice Required to Validate Tax Foreclosure of Property of Known Mental Incompetent - Frank M. Lacey S.Ed.
Recent Books - Michigan Law Review

Issue 3

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Ripeness for Revew of an Interstate Commerce Commission Order - Robert Knauss
Torts - Guest Statute - Carpools - Ross Kipka S.Ed.
Torts - Parent and Child-Doctrine of Parental Immunity - Julian J. Linde S.Ed.
Corporations - Ultra Vires Act - Effectiveness of Action by Informal Meeting of Board of Directors - Guy Maxfield
Agency - Apparent Authority - Liability of Corporation on Unauthorized Note of General Manager - Thomas A. Troyer
Labor Law - Federal Pre-Emption - An Inroad Through the Violence Doctrine - Richard E. Day
Periodical Index - Michigan Law Review
Wills - Construction - Conditional Wills - Richard Rosenthal
Corporations - Stockholder's Suit - Necessity of Demand on Other Stockholders in Derivative Action - John C. Dowd
Taxation - Federal Income Tax Deductibility of Interest on Debentures Issues as a Dividend - Jules M. Perlberg
Trusts - Jurisdiction - Trustee and Trust Assets Outside Jurisdiction of Forum - Richard J. Riordan
Wills - Execution - Attestation - Max H. Bergman
Torts - Misrepresentation - Knowledge of Falsity Unnecessary - Gerald D. Rapp
Compelling the Testimony of Political Deviants - O. John Rogge
Workmen's Compensation - Requirement of Causal Connection Between Employment and Injury - Thomas S. Erickson S.Ed.
Admiralty - Jurisdiction - Quasi -Contractual Remedy - Ross Kipka S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - Post-Conviction Due Process - Right of Indigent to Review of Non-Constitutional Trial Errors - Robert C. Casad S.Ed.
Schwartz: The Code Napoleon and the Common Law World - J. G. Castel

Issue 4

Corporations - Dividends - Date From Which Cumulative Dividends Accrue - Dudley Chapman
Recent Books - Michigan Law Review
Torts - Unauthorized Autopsy - Non-Survival of Action - Lee H. Snyder
Restitution - Constructive Trust Relief for Breach of Oral Contract to Create Trust in Land - Edward A. Manuel S.Ed.
Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Need for Lessee Who Transfers Whole Term to Base Right of Re-Entry on Condition of "Substantial Advantage" to Him - John A. Beach S.Ed.
Municipal Corporations - Zoning - Exclusion of Churches from Residential Area - William R. Luney S.Ed.
Federal Criminal Procedure - Venue Situs of Crime of Failing to Perform Statutory Duty - John C. Baity
Corporations - Stockholders - Availability of Federal Remedy as Basis for Denial of Attorney Fees in Derivative Action - Jerome Prewoznik
Corporations - Securities: Regulation - Parent Corporation as Insider Realizing Shortswing Profit - Allan L. Bioff
Antitrust - Resale Price Maintenance - Legality of Fair Trade Contracts Made by Integrated Firm - John A. Ziegler S.Ed.
Business Associations - Uniform Limited Partnership Act - Corporation as a Limited Partner - Richard Singer
Admiralty - Collision - Duty of Third Vessel to Give Warning - Michael Scott
Judicial Review in Europe - Gottfried Dietze
Evidence - Search and Seizure - Standing to Suppress Evidence Obtained by Unconstitutional Search and Seizure - Robert C. Casad S.Ed.
Periodical Index - Michigan Law Review
Compulsory Joinder of Parties in Civil Actions - John W. Reed
Negligence - Duty of Care - Liability of Builder and Architect to Third Party - Raymond J. Dittrich
Income Tax - Non-Business Bad Debt Deduction - Deduction for Partially Secured Bad Debt Deferable Until Liquidation of Collateral Regardless of Tax Avoidance Motive - Robert H. Elliott Jr.
Chafee, Jr.: The Blessings of Liberty - Nathaniel Nathanson
Garcia-Mora: International Law and Asylum as a Human Right - Alona E. Evans

Issue 5

Husband and Wife - Right of Wife to Sue for Loss of Consortium Due to Negligent Injury to Husband - James M. Porter S.Ed.
Periodical Index - Michigan Law Review
Recent Books - Michigan Law Review
Calamandrei: Procedure and Democracy - Charles Alan Wright
Edwards: Big Business and the Policy of Competition - Carl H. Fulda
Taxation - Income Tax - Accurabilty of Dealer Reserves Withheld by Finance Company - A. Duncan Whitaker S.Ed.
Taxation - Federal Estate Tax - Interpretation of "In Fact" Clause of Section 2036 and Deductibility of Support Rights of Wife - Nathan B. Driggers S.Ed.
State Universities - Legislation Control of a Constitutional Corporation - William P. Wooden
Patents - Misues Doctrine - Multiple Licenses with Price-Fixing Provisios as Shermen Act Violation - Herbert A. Bernhard S.Ed.
Master and Servant - Independent Contractor - Inherent Danger Exception - Jerome K. Walsh, Jr. S.Ed.
Rules of Practice and Procedure: A Study of Judicial Rule Making - Charles W. Joiner
Corporations - Watered Stock - Rejection of Statutory Obligation Theory - Michael McNerney S.Ed.
Corporations - Promotion - Discharge of Promoter's Liability as Bidder at a Bankruptcy Sale - John Morrow
Constitutional Law - Separation of Church and State - Bible Reading in the Public Schools - Frederic F. Brace Jr.
Civil Procedure - Splitting Cause of Action - Voluntary Settlement of Part of Cause of Action as Bar to Suit - James F. Hillis
Admirality - Jurisdiction - Action for Wrongful Death on the High Seas Limited to Admiralty - Robert Knauss S.Ed.
Patents - Licensing - Legality of Grant-Back Clauses - Eric E. Bergsten S.Ed.
Corporations - Appraisal Statutes - Elements In Valuation of Corporate Stock - John C. Baity
The Status of the Collective Labor Agreement in France - Robert J. Nye

Issue 6

Eminent Domain - Restrictive Covenants - Compensability of Equitable Servitudes - Thomas A. Troyer
Lecht: Experience Under Railway Labor Legislation - Sylvester Petro
Creditor's Rights - Fraudulent Conveyances - Security Assignment of Contract Payments Void if Assignor Retains Control - John A. Beach S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - State Action - Effect of State Court Interpretation of a Contract - Dudley H. Chapman
Administrative Law - Primary Administrative Jurisdiction - Construction and Reasonableness of Tariff Classification - Michael Scott
Atoms for Peace: The New International Atomic Energy Agency - Bernhard G. Bechhoefer
Labor Law - LMRA - Status of a Walkout Prompted by Health Reasons in the Face of a No-Strike Clause - Robert E. Hammell S.Ed.
Civil Procedure - Joinder of Statutory Causes of Action with Common Law Negligence Where There Are Different Parties Defendant - George W. Marti
Real Property - Easements - Implied Easement of Access , Created by Conveyance with Reference to Plat, as Surviving Vacation of Street - Allen Dewey
Regulation of Business-Civil Actions Under Section 3 of the Robinson-Patman Act - Richard E. Day S.Ed.
Periodical Index - Michigan Law Review
Dunham and Kurland: Mr. Justice - William G. Rice
Trademarks - Extraterritorial Application of the Lanham Act - William R. Luney S.Ed.
Labor Law - Collective Bargaining - Duty of Employer to Substantiate Claim of Inability to Pay - John Fildew
Aviation Law - Tort Liability for Damage to Persons or Property on the Ground - Res Ipsa Loquitur - Allan L. Bioff
Trusts - Improved Real Estate - Validity of Depreciation Reserves - Ross Kipka S.Ed.
Required Joinder of Claims - Dieter L. Hoegen

Issue 7

Constitutional Law - Due Process - Adequacy of Notice by Publication - Cyril Moscow S.Ed.
Simes & Smith: The Law of Future Interests - Bertel M. Sparks
Future Interests - Rule Against Perpetuities - Recent Kentucky Legislation Pertaining to Administrative Contingencies - Jules M. Perlberg S.Ed.
Regulation of Business - Sherman Act - Concerted Refusals to Deal Not Illegal Per Se - Gerald D. Rapp
Municipal Corporations - Police Power - Constitutional Validity of Curfew Ordinance - John A. Ziegler S.Ed.
Federal Jurisdiction - Securities and Exchange Commission - Application of Rule X - 10B-5 to Transactions Involving Non-Securities - Richard Singer
Admiralty - Jones Act - Applicability to Dredge Employees as Seaman - Ross Kipka
Federal Employee Invention Rights - Time to Legislate - Marcus B. Finnegan
Regulation of Business - Robinson-Patman Act - Injury to Competition Between Buyers of Auto Parts - A. Duncan Whitaker S.Ed.
Corporations - Liquidation Upon Deadlock in Closely-Held Corporation - Interpretion of Wisconsin Statute, Strong v. Fromm Laboratories, - Paul Komives
Required Joinder of Claims - Dieter L. Hoegen
Workmen's Compensation - Federal Employers' Liability Act - Coverage Under 1939 Amendment - Robert J. Hoerner
Patents - The Changing Standard of Patentable Invention: Confusion Compounded - John M. Webb S.Ed.
Periodical Index - Michigan Law Review
Corportations - Cumulative Voting, Classified Boards and Proportional Representation - William R. Luney S.Ed.
Torts - Federal Tort Claims Act - Liability of United States for Negligence of Government Firemen - James M. Porter S.Ed.
Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Lessor's Arbitrary Withholding of Consent to Sublease - William G. Mateer S.Ed.
Recent Books - Michigan Law Review
Labor Law - Labor-Management Relations Act - Strike During Life of Contract Under a Reopening Provision - Dudley Chapman
Future Interests - Construction - Implied Condition of Survivorship - Herbert A. Bernhard S.Ed.

Issue 8

Regulation of Business - Patents - Effect of Section 271 on the Doctrine of Contributory Infringement - Robert W. Steele S.Ed.
Periodical Index - Michigan Law Review
Scott: The Law of Trusts (second edition). - Lewis M. Simes
Wills - Lapse of a Residuary Gift - Phillip Jacobus
Partnership - Partnership by Estoppel -Application to Tort Actions - Thomas Erickson S.Ed.
Labor Law - NLRA - "Roving Situs" Picketing as Violation of Section 8(b)(4)(A) - William K. Muir Jr.
Corporations - Shareholders - Delegation of Director's Principal Duties Insufficient to Invalidate a Voting Trust - Gerald D. Rapp
Corporations - Officers and Directors - Liability for Inducing a Corporation to Breach Its Contracts - William H. Leighner
Constitutional Law - Due Process - Jurisdiction of a State Court Over a Foreign Corporation - Robert L. Knauss S.Ed.
Agency - Liability of Principal for Termination of Agents Employment - William G. Mateer S.Ed.
The Union of Law and Equity - Charles W. Joiner
Constitutional Law - Relation of Federal and State Governments Applicability of State Licensing Statute to Federal Contractors - Lee N. Abrams S.Ed.
Real Property - Joint Tenancy - Effect of Contract to Convery by Joint Tenants of Entire Interest in Property as a Severance of the Joint Tenancy - George W. Marti
Torts - Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act - Effect of Release on Injured Person's Claim - Herbert A. Bernhard S.Ed.
Federal Procedure - Jurisdiction - Minimal Diversity Permitted By the Federal Interpleader Act Satisfies Constitutional Requirements - Robert J. Hoerner
Pierson: The Defense Attorney and Basic Defense Tactics; Defense Law Journal, Vol.1 - Marcus L. Plant
Real Property - Adverse Possession - Title Acquired by Husband and Wife - Richard S. Rosenthal
Evidence - Examination of Witnesses - Surprise as Grounds for Impeaching a Party's Own Witness - John A. Ziegler, Jr. S.Ed.
Evidence - Dead Man's Statute - Interpretation of "Transaction" - Howard N. Nemerovski S.Ed.
Executive Compensation and Federal Securities Legislation - Myer Feldman
Recent Books - Michigan Law Review
Torts - Recent Legislation - Parental Liability Statutes - Joseph T. de Nicola
Torts - Guest Act - Negligent Conduct of the Driver - William K. Muir Jr.