RECENT CASES.

ACCIDENT INSURANCE. See Insurance.

ACCRETION. See Real Property.

ADMINISTRATION. See Mortgage.

ADMIRALTY. Salvage; gas float in a river.

State statute giving recovery for death; federal jurisdiction

ADVERSE POSSESSION. See Real Property.

AGENCY. Carriers; tort of servant

Conflicting interests of an agent

Employment of an attorney by collecting agency

Liability of agent to third persons

Vice-principal becomes fellow servant when

When knowledge of agent is knowledge of principal

ASSIGNMENT. See Equity.

BAIL. Admission to bail after conviction pending appeal; power of Supreme

Court justice

BANKRUPTCY. Power to go behind judgment; unfair compromise

BANKS AND BANKING. Insolvency of collecting bank; trust funds

Innocent purchaser; knowledge of defence at time of suit; set-off

Negotiability; uncertainty in amount

Statute of Limitations.

Unaccepted check; liability of bank having funds of drawer

Vendor's lien; payment by indorser

BURDEN OF PROOF. See Evidence.

CARRIERS. Bill of lading; deficiency in cargo

Bill of lading; duplicates.

Liability for tort of servant

Liability founded on tort .

Sleeping Car Co.'s liability for money lost by passenger.

Statutory regulation of charges; constitutionality

Termination of liability

Transfer of sleeping car section for part of journey

Eminent domain; public use

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Criminal procedure; waiver of twelve jurors.

Exemption of veterans from civil service rules

429

Municipal boundaries; power of legislature to annex non-contiguous territory 153

Partly unconstitutional statute; "Income tax" case

Police power; examining board of plumbers

Regulation of carriers' charges.

Riparian land held subject to public servitude

Seizure of private property as criminal evidence

Self-incriminating testimony.

Statute of Limitations; vested right

Trial by jury...

CONTRACTS. Accord and satisfaction

College authorities; power to expel

Consideration; successive promises of same performance (two cases)

Delivery in instalments; breach in limine.

Express condition; architect's certificate

Foreign contracts

Fraud; parol evidence

219

154

154

483

484

357

219

357

285, 544

545

220

154

219

357

358

285

484

545

286

220

Public policy; procuring of a refund of the direct tax paid to U. S. in 1861

Agreement to waive claim for negligence

Salvage; fraudulent concealment; recovery for service rendered by fraudulent

party

Unpaid subscriptions; illegality subsequent to incorporation no defence
CRIMINAL LAW. Failure to pass sentence; loss of jurisdiction

Homicide; self-defence

Jurisdiction; bringing stolen goods into State

220

358

DAMAGES. Conversion of stock by one authorized to transfer it as collateral 485

Electric railway; use of cable track

.

485

Eminent domain

Exemplary.

Expulsion of passenger

DEED. Construction; boundaries

Boundary on highways (two cases)

Estate to begin in futuro

Varying by collateral unsealed instrument

DIVORCE. See Persons.

EMINENT DOMAIN. See Constitutional Law and Damages.

EQUITY. Assignment for benefit of creditors; marshalling assets

Collection of a claim by the assignor of it.

Conveyance in fraud of intended husband

Fraud against creditors; payment of life insurance premiums

Judgment; bill to vacate

359

221

221

223

157

157

156

Mortgage of future crops

Partnership; rights of creditors

Pleading; degree of specification for discovery

Religious corporation; conveyance to other denomination; injunction

Statute of Limitations; mistake . .

Vendee's lien; consideration wholly paid

Who may enjoin unauthorized use of public funds?

Wrongful conveyance by trustee; partial payment by innocent purchaser

See Trusts.

ESTOPPEL. Misrepresentation made in “honest error "

EVIDENCE. Ancient documents; proof of contents

Burden of proof of necessity; Sabbath-breaking

Character

Confessions

Declarations of intention; res gesta

Hearsay; teacher's school record

Verbal reports

Hearsay contradicting dying declarations

Insanity ..

New trial; evidence at the former trial taken as the fact

Other criminal acts to prove intent

Parol evidence (two cases) ..

Deed; collateral unsealed instrument

Physician's testimony.

RECENT CASES - EVIDENCE - Continued.

Post-testamentary declarations

Presumption of fault

Shop books

GARNISHMENT. County and municipal corporations.

INCOME TAX. See Constitutional Law.

INSURANCE. Accident policy; suicide

Construction

Life; rights of beneficiary where insured's estate is bankrupt

Marine; stranded vessel destroyed by fire

INTERSTATE COMMERCE. State control.

JUDGMENT LIEN. Priority on after-acquired land

JUDGMENTS. Conclusiveness of foreign judgments

Disqualified judge . . .

Joint judgment an entirety; defence.

Judgment a contract as that word is used in the attachment law

Power to go behind; unfair compromise; bankruptcy

Res adjudicata

Vacation; fraud

JURY. See Constitutional Law and Criminal Law.

JURISDICTION. Appeal from State court to U. S. Supreme Court

LANDLORD AND TENANT. See Real Property.

432

222

432

430

288

360

158

152

548

486

487

LIEN. See Personal Property and Judgment Lien.

LIFE INSURANCE. See Insurance.

LIS PENDENS. Land conveyed after filing bill and before amendment

MALICE. See Torts.

PARTNERSHIP. Goodwill; right of retiring partner to solicit customers of the old

158

548

Transfer of partner's interest after insolvency of firm; rights of firm creditors 433

PATENT LAW. Generic and specific patents

Liability of husband pending divorce proceedings for expenses of wife and

Conveyance of an expectant estate

Convenant of warranty; how affected by Married Women's Act

Dedication; estoppel

Deed; construction; estate to begin in futuro

Descended land how applied in payment of conflicting claims

Donatio causa mortis

488

434

488

488

549

157

157

488

Fitness for habitation

Implied covenant of quiet enjoyment

Life tenant and remainderman; charge on inheritance

Lis pendens; conveyance after filing bill before amendment

361

489

547

434

Interruption; Prescription Act

Permanent and transient injury by nuisance; Statute of Limitations

Prescription; annual sum for repairs

Rule against perpetuities; restraints on alienation

RES JUDICATA. See Contracts and Judgments.

SALES. Action for price when title did not pass; construction

Leasehold; condition against objecting to title; specfic performance
Massachusetts Factors Act

435

362

361

549

Tenant in common; purchase of outstanding title as against cotenant

See Wills.