Legal Opinion

Thomas Roberts & Co. v. Robinson

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided March 23, 1922PublishedCited by 29 opinions

Appeals from the 'Superior Court of Baltimore City (Goethe, J.). Action of replevin-by William E. Robinson and Alphonso P. Robinson, trading as W. E. Robinson & Company, against William R. Keel, Thomas Roberts & Company and the Terminal Warehouse Company of Baltimore. Said Keel having been adjudicated a bankrupt, James E. Ellegood and others, his trustees in bankruptcy, were made parties defendant.

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Appeals from the 'Superior Court of Baltimore City (Goethe, J.). Action of replevin-by William E. Robinson and Alphonso P. Robinson, trading as W. E. Robinson & Company, against William R. Keel, Thomas Roberts & Company and the Terminal Warehouse Company of Baltimore. Said Keel having been adjudicated a bankrupt, James E. Ellegood and others, his trustees in bankruptcy, were made parties defendant. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs for the property replevied, one cent damages and costs, said Thomas Roberts & Company, said trustees, and the Terminal Warehouse Company, take separate…

1Opinion of the Court

IIríter, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this action of replevin the plaintiffs are W. E. Robinson and Company, commission merchants of Belair, Maryland, and the defendants are William R. Keel, an operator of packing factories in Wicomico and Caroline Counties, for whom his trustees in bankruptcy were substituted; Thomas Roberts and Company, commission merchants, of Philadelphia, and the Terminal Warehouse Company of Baltimore, in whose warehouse the goods taken under the writ had been stored. The issue in the case is concerned with the right to the possession of three carloads of…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Bailey v. Baker Ice MacHine Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1915
  2. Fairbanks Steam Shovel Company v. Wills, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Federal Contracting CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  3. Carey v. DonohueSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
  4. Martin v. Commercial Nat. Bank of MacOnSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
  5. First Nat. Bank of Buchanan County v. ConnettCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905

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3Cited by29 opinions

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  3. Automobile Acceptance Corp. v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1958
  4. Friedman v. Sterling Refrigerator Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1939
  5. In Re SachsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1929

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