Whitcomb v. Mason

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City. This suit was instituted to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the fault and negligence of the appellant in preventing the appellee from removing his furniture from an office, rented by him from the appellant, in time to prevent its destruction by fire.

No questions of pleading or admissibility of evidence are raised by the appeal. The only exceptions taken at the trial of the case were to the Court’s rulings on the prayers which will be referred to later on in this opinion.

It appears from the record…