Recent Important Decisions

Appeal and Error--Attorney\u27s Interest in Case on Appeal--Contingent Fee; Bankruptcy--discharge--subsequent Action for Fraud; Bills and Notes--Usury No Defense Against a bona Fide Holder--Construction of Negotiable Instruments Statute; Boundaries--Street, Terminus A Quo; Carriers--Hepbern Act--State and Federal Courts--Phrase Caused by It ; Chattel Mortgages--Payment without Notice of Assignment--Construction of a Mortgage Provision; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of Laws--Statute Requiring Screens on Cars Operated by Corporations; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Laws--Class Legislation; Contracts--No Recovery Under an Entire Illegal Contract; Contracts--Validity of Contract in Contemplation of Divorce; Courts--Federal Courts--authority of Decision of State Courts-- Telegraph ; Covenants--Breach of that Against Incumbrances; Elections--Ballots--Indication of Choice by Voter; Evidence--Facts Judicially Noticed May be Rebutted; Evidence--Relative Value of Positive and Negative Testimony as to Existence of Headlight on Locomotive; Garnishment--Effect of Appearance of Garnishee; Health--Isolation of Person Afflicted with Contagious Disease--Injunction Against board of Health--Constitutional Right to Liberty; Injunction--Trade Secrets--Confidential Employment--Right to Enjoin Disclosure; Insurance--Construction of Clause, Death Caused by the Burning of a Building ; Insurance--Meaning of Fire ; Landlord and Tenant--Release from Payment of Rent--Prohibition of Business by Law; Libel and Slander--Defaming a Public Officer; Master and Servant--Assault by Fellow Servant--Liability of Master; Municipal Corporations--Paving Contracts--contractor Not a Warrantor of Plan and Specifications Prepared by Municipality; Negligence--Employment of Child in Violation of Statute--Liability of Employer for Injury; Negligence--Hospitals--Liability for Negligence of Servants; Principal and Agent--Transfer of Negotiable Instrument by Agent; Wills--Partial Revocatio