Legal Opinion

Johnson v. Flanders

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 15, 1880PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Equity. Administrators and executors. Before Judge JOHNSON. Johnson Superior Court. March Term, 1880. Johnson, administrator, filed his bill agains Flanders et al., alleging substantially the facts set out in the headnote. On demurrer the court dismissed the bill, and complainant excepted.

1Opinion of the Court

Jackson, Chief Justice.

This bill was filed by the plaintiff in error to marshal the assets of an estate, and to enjoin the creditors thereof in the meantime from ruining the estate by a multiplicity of suits, and the enforcement of liens of various dignity. The estate is insolvent. There are claims cf physicians’ bills for services in last sickness from different doctors, and other liens of greater or less dignity. The immediate cause of its having been brought by the administrator seems to be that he had been sued and judgment rendered and execution levied on a tract of land, and the prayer…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Macon & Western R. R. v. ParkerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1851

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Hudson v. TateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1939
  2. Ragan v. SmithSupreme Court of Georgia · 1914

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