Federal Land Bank v. Birchfield

This action, based on defamatory statements, was instituted by W. V. Birchfield against the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore. The trial court entered judgment for $1,500 on the jury’s verdict for plaintiff. To that judgment defendant in the trial court obtained this writ of error.

Plaintiff began the action by filing a petition for an attachment, on the ground that the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore was a non-resident corporation. All the attachments that were served upon the different parties, alleged in the petition to be indebted to the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore, were dismissed. The…