Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co. v. Rode

This is an action in assumpsit brought in the Baltimore City Court by the appellee, the plaintiff below, for the recovery of the unpaid balance of the purchase price of tomatoes, which he claimed to have sold to Samuel M. Robinson,. of whose estate the appellant, the defendant below, is executor and trustee; for expenses incurred in hauling the tomatoes to the cars in which they were shipped; and for the value of a large number of the baskets in which the tomatoes were contained, and which were to have been returned by Robinson to the appellee.

In addition to the common counts, the declaration…