Roman v. Mali
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The bill of complaint in this case was filed by the appellee on the 23rd of June, 181?!, against the appellant. The opinions in the case, together with the argument of the appellant’s counsel, furnish, it is thought, a statement of the case sufficient to illustrate the points decided by the Court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The bill of complaint in this case was filed by the appellee on the 23rd of June, 181?!, against the appellant. The opinions in the case, together with the argument of the appellant’s counsel, furnish, it is thought, a statement of the case sufficient to illustrate the points decided by the Court. The Court below (Pinkney, J.,) being of opinion that the complainant was entitled to the relief as prayed, decreed on the 20th of February, 1874, that J. Philip Roman, deceased, held the property situated at Locust Point, in the city of Baltimore, in…
1Opinion of the Court
Alvey, J.,
delivered the following opinion, which was concurred in by Judges Bowre and Brent:
A careful examination of the record in this case cannot fail for a moment to convince any one that, in the transfer and concealment of the property of Mali, in the name and apparent ownership of Roman, a gross fraud was perpetrated upon the creditors of the former. But, in the view of a majority of this Court, Mali was not less guilty in the *532intent-and practice of that fraud than Roman; they were clearly, according to our apprehension, in pari delicto. And as this suit is in effect an application to a…
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