Lease-a-Car, Inc. v. Thomassen Lincoln Mercury, Inc.

Lease-A-Car, Inc. (Lease-A-Car) and Control Leasing Corporation (Control) filed an action at law in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County against Thomassen Lincoln Mercury, Inc. (Thomassen) alleging in separate counts, (1) wrongful conversion of a Lincoln Continental Automobile and (2) intentional and wrongful interference with a contract between Lease-A-Car and one Bentley V. Plummer (Plummer).

Thomassen filed a general issue plea and a plea of res judicata. The latter plea alleged that actions concluded in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland entitled Plummer, et…