Woolley v. Georgia Loan & Trust Co.

1. An equitable petition against a sheriff and others, which prays for no relief against the former except that he be enjoined from executing a “dispossessory” warrant which had been sued out against the plaintiff, is not maintainable in the county of the sheriff’s residence, upon the theory that such warrant was a pending proceeding therein, nor upon the theory that the sheriff is a party against whom substantial equitable relief is prayed; for while the relief prayed against him may be “substantial,” a resort to equity is not necessary to obtain it, the plaintiff’s remedy by…