Legal Opinion
Commodities Reserve Corp. v. Belt's Wharf Warehouses, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 20, 1987No. Misc. No. 19, September Term, 1986PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RODOWSKY, Judge.
We are here concerned with the “burden(s) of proof” in actions by an owner/bailor against a warehouser/bailee for harm to warehoused goods. Two questions have been certified to us by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. 1 See Commodities Reserve Corp. v. M/S Roumania, 806 F.2d 501 (4th Cir.1986). The questions are:
1. What are the respective liabilities of a warehouseman (or bailee) and the owner (or bailor) of property stored with the warehouseman for loss of or damages to such property by reason of the failure of the bailee to return the property at the…
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