Michigan Reports

BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS v. COMMON COUNCIL OF DETROIT. Parks: Statute construed.-Mandamus: Common council: Ministerial duty.-Municipal corporations : State control: Legislative authority.-Cities: Two-fold character : Local interests.-Property rights: Matters of exclusively local concern.-Local self-government.-Motive: Benefits: State interference.-Legislative power: Citizens' meetings.-Representatives of a city: State agents: Park commissioners.-Particular person: Specified purpose.-Advisory power: Final determination.-Bonds.

BRAIDWOOD, Bristol v.

BREWER v. DODGE. Equity pleading and practice: Opening decree.-Default: Discretion.-Parties: Complainant: Assignment: Abatement.-Decree.

BRISTOL v. BRAIDWOOD. Replevin: False representations: Prior incumbrance: Burden of proof: Evidence.-Value: Caveat emptor.-Prior mortgage: Fraud.

BROMLEY, SUMMERS v.

BROWN v. MCCORMICK. Deed: Record: Subscribing witness: Affixing a mark.—Acknowledgment : Certificate.-Justice of the peace.-Statute construed.-Defective deed: Notice.-Repeals by implication.

BURTON v. ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY OF DETROIT. Associations: Members: Expulsion: Charges: Misconduct.-Articles of association: Committee: Appointment: Presiding officer.Proceedings to expel: Regularity: Presumptions: Routine questions: Review.

BUSH, DAVIS v.

BUTLER, CHADWICK v.

BUTTERFIELD v. BEARDSLEY. Joint stock associations: Partners.—

Equity pleading and practice: Report of master: Exceptions.— Equity jurisdiction.-Sales: Certificate of shares.—Company property: Distribution of proceeds: Legal title.-Division of assets: Parties: Articles of association: Shareholder: Distribution of fund.

BUTTON, CONrad v.

CAMERON V. BENTLEY. Remedy: Writ of error.

CAMPAU, DUBOIS v.

CAMPBELL, Walrath v.

CHADWICK O. BUTLER.-Charge to the jury: Evidence: Contracts.-
Delivery.-Hypothesis.—Notice.-Reasonable time: Demand.-
Sales: Measure of damages.

CHICAGO & MICH. L. S. R. R. Co. v. HUGHES. Arbitration:
Record: Evidence: Requests for special findings: Prelimi-
nary findings: Awards.-Review.-Judgment:

arbitration: Costs.-Releases: Res adjudicata. CLEGG, DANIELS v. COE v. NASH. Contract: Evidence: Bill rendered.

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COLBATH V. JONES. Evidence: Draft: Acceptance: Signature.-
Return construed: Allegation: Proofs.-Consideration.
COLEMAN, MICHIGAN CENTRAL R. R. Co. v.
COLGATE v. MICH. LAKE SHORE R. R. Co.

peal in chancery: Receiver.

COLLAR v. HARRISON. Statute construed:
to discharge a mortgage: Jurisdiction:
jurisdiction.-Practice: Double costs.
COLLINS, BISSELL v.

COMMON COUNCIL OF DETROIT, BOARD OF PARK COMMISSION

Final order: Ap

Penalty for refusing
Amount.-Equity

peal.

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DANIELS O. CLEGG. Highway: Ordinary prudence: Use of the road.-Collision: Ordinary care: Contributory negligence.Burden of proof.—Requests to charge.—Negligence: Age: Sex.Law of the road: Traveled part of the road: Statute construed.-Adopted statutes: Rules of construction.-Practice.Trespass: Remedy. -Declaration: Justice's court.-Charge to the jury.

DETROIT FIRE & MARINE INS. Co., MARTZ v.
DODGE, BREWER v.

ERS V.

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CONRAD v. BUTTON. Remedy: Administrators: Removal: Error. 365
CONTINENTAL INSURANCE Co. v. HORTON. Practice: Evidence:

Errors that do not prejudice.- Value.-Insurance: Policy:
Provision against double insurance.—Instruction to the jury:
Requests to charge.
Cornwall, Atwood v.

DAVIS 0. BUSH. Practice: Discretionary rulings.-Rulings that do not prejudice.-Fixed price: Quantum meruit: Estoppel.— Receipt: Admission: Contract relation: Price.

DESBOROUGH, HENDERSON v.

CRANE . REEDER. Transfer of causes: Writ of error : Remedy.-Jurisdiction: Presumptions.-Time of application for transfer: Act of 1789 construed: Grounds of removal.-Act of 1866 construed.—Act of 1867 construed: Citizens: Aliens. 527 CRAWFORD, Larke v.

DAMOUTH . KLOCK. Partition: Decree: Final order:

DRESSER v. BLAIR. Practice: Charge to the jury.-Error cured : Waiver.-Assault and battery: Damages: Errors that do not prejudice.

DUBOIS 1. CAMPAU. Ejectment: Adverse possession: Assessing
taxes: Evidence.-Special questions to jury: Statute con-
strued.- Tenants in common: Presumptions.— Inferences :
Errors that do not prejudice.

DUNCAN, PENINSULAR RAILWAY Co. v.
Dupont ↑. HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS OF HAMTRAMCK. High-
ways: Return of commissioners: Notice: Proof of service.--

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Record: Defect: Amendment: Affidavit: Service.-Defec-
tive record.-Jurisdiction: Service of notices: Oral statements:
Legal evidence.-Process.

EAST SAGINAW & ST. CLAIR R. R. Co. v. BENHAM. Proceedings
to condemn lands: Oath of jurors.-Damages: Joint interest:
Waiver.-Findings: Public use: Necessity.-Petition.—Notice:
Appearance.

EVERS 0. SAGER. Appeal from justice's courts: Amendments:
Pleadings: Ad damnum: Jurisdiction.-Estoppel: Stipula-
tion: Objection: Waiver.-Appeal bond: Sureties: Princi-
pal: Amendments.—Costs: Statute construed.-Remedy:
Error: Certiorari.

FAXON, FAXTON v.

FAXTON . FAXON. Mortgages: Estoppel.

FEWLASS v. ABBOTT.

Names: Initials: Presumptions.-Prin

cipal: Surety: Errors that do not prejudice. FINCH, MASON v.

FLINT & PERe Marquette RAILWAY Co. v. LULL. Fencing
railroads: Statute construed: Cattle: Presumptions: Excep-
tional cases: Evidence.-Streets and alleys: Depot grounds:
Public convenience.-Contributory negligence.

FORT WAYNE, JACKSON & SAGINAW R. R. Co., MONROE v.
FOWLER, HATCH v.

GALLIGAN v. Galligan.

GREEN . LANGDON. Chancery appeals: Questions of fact: Evidence: Practice.-Mortgages: Indorsements: Gifts: Extinguishment.-Delivery: Acceptance: Testamentary disposition: Consideration.- Presumptions: Receipt: Release: Retraction.-Admission: Tender.

Sales: Parties.-Stat

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GREINER V. KLEIN. Dower: Partition :

ute construed.

HAMILTON V. JUDGE OF CALHOUN CIRCUIT. Criminal cases:
Bill of exceptions: Motion to quash.

HARDWICK V. RICHARDSON. Estates of deceased persons: Claims:
Question of fact.
HARRING, Waldron v.
HARRINGTON, HOFFMAN v.
HARRISON, COLLAR v.
HARRISON . SAGER.
HARRISON, WHEELER v.

Practice: Costs.

HARWOOD v. UNDERWOOD. Bill in equity construed.-Proofs: Allegations.-Mortgages: Bill to redeem: Title.-Levy: Execution: Lien.-Immaterial averments.-Specific performance. HATCH v. FOWLER. Replevin: Sales: Title: Contract: Evidence.-Possession.-Delivery: Quantity.—Charge to the jury :

Fraudulent sales.

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427

HENDERSON V. DESBOROUGH. Replevin: Justice of the peace:
Value: Jurisdiction.-Judgment: Damages: Amount.

HEWETT, MORSE v.

HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS OF HAMTRAMCK, DUPONT v.

Certiorari: Want of evidence :

HITCHCOCK v. SUTTON.

sumption: Return.

HOFFMAN 7. HARRINGTON. Administrator's sales:

LANGDON, Green v.

LARAWAY, WEST v.

Statute con-

strued: Indirect purchase by administrator: Bona fide pur-

chaser.-Trespass quare clausum: Tax deeds: Color of title:

Evidence.-Bill of exceptions: Loss of deed.-Practice: Record:

Contents of deed.— Presumptions.— Quit-claim deed: Usual

form.-Clause construed: Reservation.

HORTON, CONtinental Insurance Co. v.

HUBBARD, Peterson v.

HUGHES, CHICAGO & MICH. L. S. R. R. Co. v.

INDUSTRIAL WORKS, BAY CITY GAS-LIGHT Co. v.

JOHNSON v. BALLOU. Land grant: Title: Grant in presenti.—
Opinions of attorney general.-Treaty cessions: Individual bar-
gaining: Common-law estates.-Floating title: Specific par-
cels.-Right of selection: Sales.- Vested rights.-Construction:
Inferences: Technicalities: Equities.-Application to purchase
lands: Timber: Trespassers.-Evidence: Patent: Recitals.—
Relation.-Practice: Writ of error: Final judgment.

JOHNSON V. MOORE. Deed: Delivery: Time: Acknowledgment :

Presumption.-Contract construed: License: Timber: Title.-

Contract: Construction.—Notice: Evidence.-Replevin: Logs:

Detention: Charge to the jury.

JONES, COLBATH v.

JUDGE OF CALHOUN CIRCUIT, HAMILTON v.

JUDGE OF SUPERIOR Court of Detroit, Muir v.

KEATING, PERKINS v.

KNEALE 0. KNEALE. Divorce: Adultery: Evidence: Children-

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Prohibi

Verdict of jury.

KREITER 0. NICHOLS. Prohibitory liquor law: Liability of seller

to wife, etc.: Statute sustained.—Intoxicating drinks : Master

and servant: Private instructions.-Beer: Stealing: Conver-

sion: Receiving pay for stolen liquor.-Property: Conversion:

Recovery: Settling.-Exemplary damages.

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LARKE 7. CRAWFORD. Quo warranto: Pleadings: Information :

Plea.-Practice: Disclaimer: Question of fact: Exercise of

office.—Justification: Office: Title of respondent: Conclusion:

Verification: Burden of proof: Issue af fact.-Demurrer.

LOVELL 0. WILLARD.
tice: Evidence.

LULL, FLINT & PERE MARQUETTE RAILWAY Co. v.
MACOMBER V. SAXTON.

Chattel mortgages: Mortgagor's interest :
Execution: Possession: Roplevin-Stipulation: Special inter-
est: Admissions.-Practice: Errors that work no prejudice.
MANDLEBAUM, WILLETS v.
MARION, PEOPLE v.
MARQUETTE & ONTONAGON R. R. Co. v. TAFT. Railroads:
Agency: Yard-master: Employment of physician.-Servants :
Injuries to employes: Reckless servants.-Agency:
superintendent.-Practice.

General

MARTIN, STARKWEATHER v.

MARTZ v. DETROIT FIRE & MARINE INS. Co. Garnishee proceed-

ings.-Insurancs: Garnishment: Right of election: Liabil-

ity: Statute construed.

MASON . FINCH. Masonic societies: Chapters: Corporations:
Merger.-Membership: Identity.-Legislative power: Corpora-
tors.—Associations: Assent.-Acquiescence: Estoppel: Rati-
fication.-Parties: Death of plaintiffs: Action surviving.
MATTER OF HAMILTON BALUSS. Attorneys: Proceedings to dis-
bar: Evidence.

MCCORMICK, Brown v.

MCREYNOLDS, Barnard v.

Finding of facts: Special verdict: Prac-