Recent Important Decisions

Bankruptcy--Insurance Policies--Cash Surrender Value; Bankruptcy--Partnership and Individual Assets; Bills and Notes--Payment by the United States of Pension Checks on Forged Indorsements--Recovery of Payment; Common Carriers--Defective Transfers; Constitutional Law--Commerce in Intoxicating Liquors--License Tax of Traveling Salesman; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Law--State Statute; Constitutional law--Police Power--Flag Legislation; Contracts--Assignments of--Right of Assignee Against Debtor; Corporations--Acquisition of Exemption in Merger; Deeds--Construction and Operation--Reservation and Exception; Deeds--Suit to Set Aside--Duress of Wife--Parties in Pari Delicto; Evidence--Confessions to One Not in Authority--Admissibility; Foreign Corporations--Effect on contracts of Failure to Register--Contracts; Fraud--Independent Investigation; Frauds, Statute of--agreement to Deal in Lands; Husband and Wife--Right to Disposition of Dead Bodies--Erection of Monuments; Injunction Against Taxation--Methods and Inequality of Valuation; Insurance--Cancellation of Policy--Tender of Unearned Premiums; Insurance--Contract to Defend Malpractice Suits--Construction; Insurance--dissolution of a Mutual Company--Assessments; Judgments--effect on Posthumous Heir; Jury--Affinity as Affecting Competence of Juryman; Jury--Competence of Juryman--Discretion of the Court; Justices of the Peace--Jurisdiction--Amount in Controversy; Master and Servant--Assumption of Risk--Automatic Coupler Act--Contributory Negligence; Master and Servant--Independent Contractor; Mechanic\u27s Lien--Exemption of Homestead; Municipal Corporations--Patented Pavement--Competition; Navigable Waters--Riparian Rights--Wharfing Out; Negligence--Sending Sick Person Away from Premises Into Danger; Nuisance--Injuries Resulting From Explosion of Blasting Powder; Picketing--Lawful and Unlawful; Public Officers--De Facto--Selection of Jurors; Railroads--Crossing Accident--Contributory Negligence; Sales of Patent Rights--State Regulation; Trial--Question for Court and Jury; Wills--Doctrine of Incorporation by Reference; Wills--Residuary Clause--Charging Legacies on the Realty; Witnesses--Claim of Immunity from Prosecution for Perjury by Bankrupt, Testifying Under Sec. 7, Subd. 9 of Bankruptcy Act