Diggs v. Denny
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Dobler, J.) At the trial the following prayers were offered: Plaintiffs’ 1st Prayer.—The plaintiffs pray the Court if it shall find as a matter of fact that at the time of the purchase of the coal for which the replevin in this case was issued, the purchasers thereof, August and Julius Hellweg, knew themselves to be insolvent or had good reasons to know themselves to be insolvent and had no reasonable…
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Dobler, J.) At the trial the following prayers were offered: Plaintiffs’ 1st Prayer.—The plaintiffs pray the Court if it shall find as a matter of fact that at the time of the purchase of the coal for which the replevin in this case was issued, the purchasers thereof, August and Julius Hellweg, knew themselves to be insolvent or had good reasons to know themselves to be insolvent and had no reasonable expectation of paying for the same, and that the defendant in the replevin claims title thereto under the deed of assignment' from…
1Opinion of the CourtBryan, J.
This was an action of replevin, brought by the appellants against the appellee. The j udgment being for the defendant, the plaintiffs appealed.
It appeared in evidence that Julius and August Hellweg, partners under the firm name of August Hellweg, had been dealing with Diggs & Co. about twelve years, and had during that time purchased from them large quantities of coal; that in August, 1896, they were indebted to Diggs & Co. more than nine thousand dollars ; that more than two thousand dollars of this sum had accrued between the first and thirteenth days of August, eighteen hundred and…
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