Case Name: COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY v. RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1958-03-31
Citations: 216 Md. 259
Docket Number: No. 127
Parties: COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY v. RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland Reports
Volume: 216
Pages: 259–261

Head Matter:
COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY v. RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANY
[No. 127,
September Term, 1957.]
Decided March 31, 1958.
The cause was argued before Brunb, C. J., and Hbndbrson, Hammond, Prbscott and Hornby, JJ.
Charles B. Reeves, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Edward F. Engelbert, Staff Attorney, Retail Sales Tax Division, with whom was C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, on the brief, for the appellant.
William L. Mar bury, with whom were Charles C. G. Evans, Frederic S. Cross, John Martin Jones, Jr., and Piper & Mar-Jury on the brief, for the appellee.

Opinion:
Brunb, C. J.,
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.
There are no essential differences between this case and the Martin case. Rheem has a plant at Sparrows Point, Maryland, at which it is engaged generally in the manufacture of steel containers, drums, pails, water heaters, tanks and boilers. The Army wanted Rheem to produce a particular type of shell case for use in the Korean War. Since Rheem did not have the facilities for the production of such shell cases, it entered into a facilities contract with the United States Government, acting through the Department of Defense, which was of the same general type as the facilities contracts involved in the Martin case. Purchases of facilities thereunder, in respect of which the Comptroller held sales and use taxes were payable (the two being segregated in this case), extended from November, 1952, through April, 1955. Rheem, unlike Martin, did not furnish resale certificates to its vendors, as called for by Rule 40 of the Rules and Regulations of the Comptroller.
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.