RECENT CASES.

The article focuses on various lawsuits lodged in the U.S. The secretary of a company, to accommodate a friend, certified a transfer of shares, though the certificates were not lodged in the company's office as represented. The committee of a lunatic filed a petition in bankruptcy. Held, that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain such a petition. Under the Mexican statute giving an action for death by wrongful act, the liability of the defendant is limited to furnishing support to the legal dependents of the deceased during the periods of time that support would have been due from him, payments being made in monthly installments.