Vestel v. Tasker

1. While, as a general rule, a receiver can not bring suit except by express authority of court (Screven v. Clark, 48 Ga. 42), this rule does not apply to a petition for injunction brought by the receiver in the court by which he was appointed. The fact that the court entertains his petition is tantamount to a grant of authority to sue.

2. “It is the duty of tbe court to protect from interference the property in its possession through its receiver, an officer of the court; and the writ of injunction is a mild remedy, when attachment and imprisonment for contempt might have been used by the…