Dudley v. Roberts

This is a suit in trover by .appellee against appellant for the alleged wrongful appropriation to his use of the proceeds of the tenant’s part of certain tobacco' shipped jointly by William B. Olaggett, the landlord, and J. Irving Parker, the tenant, of a farm in Prince Geoi’ge’s County, Md., to appellant, a commission merchant of Baltimore City. Parker being indebted to The Matthews-Howard Motor Company, of Washington, D. 0., for purchase money fox* a motor truck, gave the company four conditional sales judgment notes amounting in all to' more than $1,100. These were all due in the summer of…