David Long was convicted of possession of marijuana by a Michigan Circuit Court after the court denied Long’s motion to suppress marijuana seized from his car. Long swerved his car into a ditch, and two officers had stopped to investigate the incident...

The grantors conveyed land to a city so that a U.S. naval depot could be built on the land. The U.S. paid the city for the land but then abandoned the site and conveyed the land to the city. The heir of the grantors sued to have the land subject to a...

Plaintiff lender and the defendant borrower corporation entered into a loan agreement. When the defendant defaulted on the loan, the officers held discussions with the plaintiff to work out ways to repay the loan. A proposed plan for repayment, which...

Five civil rights cases were consolidated before the court in order to decide if the Civil Rights Act of 1875, 18 Stat. 335, §§ 1, 2 (1875), were constitutional for the denial of plaintiffs' public accommodations and privileges. These cases...

An abductor viciously assaulted and raped the victim and the evidence suggested that the sexual assault had been planned with the owner's property in mind. The assailant was never identified or caught. The victim filed a negligence claim against the...

The purchaser contracted with the manufacturer for the design and construction of injection blow mold machines that were to be used in his plastics' business. The manufacturer had never built such a machine, but was willing to do so with the purchaser's...

The decedent's home exploded and was engulfed in flames, causing her death. After investigation, it was determined that the fire was caused by the failure of the flexible brass gas connector that connected the kitchen range to the gas supply. It had...

In a dissolution judgment entered in 1973, the parties were given an undivided interest as tenants in common of 300 shares of stock in Hermiston Broadcasting Company. Husband was given the right to vote the stock and to exercise other incidents of management...

Danou, a naturalized citizen from Iraq, took out a multi-million dollar loan from Flagstar in May 2006. Come its due date in May 2009, Danou was struggling to repay the loan. In November 2009, Flagstar and Southfield, Danou's real estate venture,...

Defendant was blasting rocks onto land adjacent to property of plaintiffs. The blasting caused rocks to be thrown onto the plaintiffs' property. Plaintiffs sued defendant for property damage and for anxiety suffered by one of the plaintiffs. No plaintiff...