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COMMODITIES RESERVE CORP. v. BELT'S WHARF

Misc. No. 19, September Term, 1986.

310 Md. 365 (1987)

529 A.2d 822

COMMODITIES RESERVE CORPORATION ET AL. v. BELT'S WHARF WAREHOUSES, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for Reconsideration Denied October 5, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Skeen, Wright, Constable & Skeen, on brief, Baltimore, for appellant.

Scott A. Hunsicker, Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ.

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...

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