Welebir v. Gilbert

This appeal requires us to decide whether the appellant, a physician of Arlington, Va., who, in exchange for what proved to be a worthless check, sold his Cadillac automobile to a used car dealer in that City without delivering the certificate of title, or the appellee, who bought the Cadillac from the insolvent dealer without receiving the title certificate, must suffer the loss that the transaction necessarily inflicts on one or the other. The doctor brought suit in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County in replevin to recover the car from the buyer, a Maryland resident, and the court,…