Comptroller of the Treasury v. Rheem Manufacturing Co.
Comptroller of the Treasury v. Rheem Manufacturing Co.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a companion case to Comptroller of the Treasury v. The Glenn L. Martin Company, 216 Md. 235, 140 A. 2d 288. The two cases were submitted together in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County under an agreement between counsel for both parties that the decision in the Martin case would be binding in this case. The Circuit Court, in accordance with that stipulation and basing its order upon its opinion in the Martin case reversed the action of the Comptroller, which had denied a refund of sales and use taxes to the appellee, Rheem Manufacturing Company (“Rheem”) ; .and the court ordered that Rheem “have judgment for $4,306.60, the amount of its claim for refund.” The Comptroller appeals.
No point was made of this difference in the trial court, and the stipulation above referred to would seem to have eliminated it from consideration. It does not appear to have been passed upon by the trial court and it is not referred to in Judge Raine’s opinion. Consequently, it stands no better than did the same point in Comptroller v. Aerial Products, Inc., 210 Md. 627, 124 A. 2d 805, and it is not properly before us.
There is no basis for distinguishing between the Martin case and this case as the two appeals have been presented to us, and the decision in the Martin case, which we shall not restate or summarize here, is controlling.
Order affirmed, with costs.
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- COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY v. RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANY
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