Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 217Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Richard W. Cooper, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1922 - Law reports, digests, etc |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 96
Page 1
... suit by the insurer to cancel a life insurance policy , after the death of assured , on the ground that untrue statements were made in the answers to material ques- tions contained in the application , held , that if the ap- plicant ...
... suit by the insurer to cancel a life insurance policy , after the death of assured , on the ground that untrue statements were made in the answers to material ques- tions contained in the application , held , that if the ap- plicant ...
Page 8
... suit himself , in view of all the circumstances , the law would justly be subject to the reproach of favoring deception and fraud , if the insurer was allowed to retain the premium , and at the same time repudiate the contract , for his ...
... suit himself , in view of all the circumstances , the law would justly be subject to the reproach of favoring deception and fraud , if the insurer was allowed to retain the premium , and at the same time repudiate the contract , for his ...
Page 9
... suit himself . ' " Justice OSTRANDER made a review of the cases which had been decided by this court up to that time and said : " The decisions of this court are not conflicting and must be read and considered together for the purpose ...
... suit himself . ' " Justice OSTRANDER made a review of the cases which had been decided by this court up to that time and said : " The decisions of this court are not conflicting and must be read and considered together for the purpose ...
Page 30
... suit is " The Maccabees ' and in view of some other features of the case , I think it necessary to state why this is so . Prior to 1914 , there were two fraternal insurance associations of the same general character operating largely in ...
... suit is " The Maccabees ' and in view of some other features of the case , I think it necessary to state why this is so . Prior to 1914 , there were two fraternal insurance associations of the same general character operating largely in ...
Page 40
... suit was brought to enforce pay- ment of a judgment at law which John A. Innis re- covered against the defendant I. Noble Heft in the circuit court for the county of Kent , on June 8 , 1915 , for $ 8,100 damages and $ 42 costs of suit ...
... suit was brought to enforce pay- ment of a judgment at law which John A. Innis re- covered against the defendant I. Noble Heft in the circuit court for the county of Kent , on June 8 , 1915 , for $ 8,100 damages and $ 42 costs of suit ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action affirmed agreement amended appeal appellee arbitration assessments Assumpsit authority award bill BIRD bonds brings error Byron Center cause certiorari charge cider circuit court Circuit Judge cited city of Detroit CLARK commission Comp Company concurred convicted corporation counsel court of equity death deceased December 22 decree defendant defendant's denied Detroit United Railway directed verdict Docket employee employment evidence fact fendant filed fraud held injury intoxicating issue judgment jury Justice STONE took late Justice STONE lease liability Lincoln Motor Company liquor Lumber Maccabees mandamus March 30 ment Michigan MOORE motion October October 14 opinion ordinance paid parties payment person plaintiff premises proceedings proof purpose question Railway real estate reason record reversible error robbery rule SHARPE statute STEERE street Submitted testified testimony thereof tiff tion trial court trial judge Wayne Wayne county WIEST witness writ
Popular passages
Page 371 - arises out of the employment, when there is apparent to the rational mind, upon consideration of all the circumstances, a causal connection between the conditions under which the work is required to be performed and the resulting injury.
Page 86 - All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree, and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree...
Page 580 - No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title...
Page 547 - Intend. (1) Where there is a contract to sell specific or ascertained goods, the property in them is transferred to the buyer at such time as the parties to the contract intend it to be transferred. (2) For the purpose of ascertaining the intention of the parties, regard shall be had to the terms of the contract, the conduct of the parties, usages of trade and the circumstances of the case.
Page 546 - Whether it is for the buyer to take possession of the goods or for the seller to send them to the buyer is a question depending in each case on the contract, express or implied, between the parties. Apart from any such contract, express or implied, or usage of trade to the contrary, the place of delivery...
Page 314 - The following persons shall be conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent for support upon a deceased employee : — (a) A wife upon a husband with whom she lives at the time of his death.
Page 317 - VI, section 1, which provides that the judicial power of the state shall be vested "in the senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, in a supreme court, district courts...
Page 521 - Where the injury for which compensation is payable under this act was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer to pay damages in respect thereof...
Page 34 - ... 3. If the . insured has pursued the course pointed out by the laws of the association, and has done all in his power to change the beneficiary, but before the new certificate is actually issued he dies, a court of equity will treat such certificate as having been issued.
Page 646 - ... superinduced by the antecedent exhaustion of the party, arising from gross and habitual drunkenness. However criminal in a moral point of view such an indulgence is, and however justly a party may be responsible for his acts arising from it to Almighty God, human tribunals are generally restricted from punishing them since they are not the acts of a reasonable being. Had the crime been committed while Drew was in a fit of intoxication, he would have been liable to have been convicted of murder.