Hobbs v. Franklin Jewelry Co.

On September 21, 1939, “Franklin Jewelry Company Inc., trading as Schneers” (hereinafter referred to as plaintiff) instituted a trover action in the civil court of Fulton County against William R. Hobbs (hereinafter called defendant) Lor the conversion of two gold rings and a gold watch of the alleged value of $102.25. The defendant pleaded that, on March 24, 1939, he filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court for the northern district of Georgia and was adjudicated a bankrupt on the following day; that the claim upon which the trover suit was based was…