UNITED RENTAL EQUIPMENT CO. INC. v. POTTS & CALLAHAN

[No. 326, September Term, 1962.]

231 Md. 552 (1963)

191 A.2d 570

UNITED RENTAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC. v. POTTS & CALLAHAN CONTRACTING CO., INC., ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Brooks, with whom were Allen, Burch & Allen and Francis B. Burch on the brief, for appellant.

Benjamin H. Murray, with whom was J. Paul Bright, Jr., on the brief, for Potts & Callahan Contracting Co., Inc., part of appellees.

Eugene P. Smith, with whom was M. William Adelson on the brief, for Mark M. Mayers & Co., Inc., part of appellees.

Submitted on the brief by Jacob Hornstein for Standard Finance Co., other appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, HORNEY and MARBURY, JJ.


HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The lessee of an air compressing machine suffered judgment and execution to go against him, and the machine was sold by the sheriff. At issue in this appeal is whether the purchaser or the lessor of the machine, claiming it as owner, has title, and the purchaser's right to damages because the lessor in seeking to establish its ownership of the machine by legal action prevented the purchaser from disposing of the machine...

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