U.S. Bank Trust National Ass'n Ex Rel. Metropolitan Bank & Trust v. Venice MD LLC

OPINION

Metropolitan Bank and Trust (“Metropolitan”) sued Venice, MD, Venice LLC, and Hagerstown Maryland LLC (collectively, the “Landlord”) for taking wrongful possession of the Venice Inn, a hotel and restaurant operation in Hagerstown, Maryland. Metropolitan, which possessed a security interest in the personal property of the Inn, claimed that the Landlord wrongfully took possession of the Inn and disposed of the Inn’s personal property for a period of several months. Metropolitan sought damages for conversion equal to the gross revenues of the Inn during the Landlord’s possession, along…