Trieber v. Knabe
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany county. Replevin brought on the 25th of March 1856, by the appellees against the appellant, to recover a piano-forte alleged to be the property of the plaintiffs. Exception. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, which with the prayer of the defendant rejected by the court, (Perry, J.,) is sufficiently stated in the opinion of this court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany county. Replevin brought on the 25th of March 1856, by the appellees against the appellant, to recover a piano-forte alleged to be the property of the plaintiffs. Exception. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, which with the prayer of the defendant rejected by the court, (Perry, J.,) is sufficiently stated in the opinion of this court. To the rejection of his prayer the defendant excepted, and the verdict and judgment being against him, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLe Grand, C. J.
This is an action of replevin, and comes before us on the ruling of the court below on an agreed statement of facts. The suit involves the title to a piano. The facts agreed upon, which are material to be stated for the decision of this case, may be thus enumerated: The piano in controversy belonged to the plaintiffs, and was by them hired to one Stinebecker, a music teacher, in Cumberland, in the summer or fall of the year 1854; Stinebecker boarded and lodged with one Helfelfinger, the keeper of the “Revere House,” and the tenant of the defendant. The “Revere House” was a public hotel. After…
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