First District Agricultural & Mechanical School v. Reynolds

The Ware-Hatcher Furniture Company of Atlanta sold some furniture on open account to the First District Agricultural & Mechanical School, located at Statesboro. $1,000 was paid on the account, leaving a balance of $627.60 due. The vendor was subsequently adjudicated bankrupt, and the trustees, under an order of the bankruptcy court, sold and transferred this account to J. H. Keynolds, who sued out a purchase-money attachment in the city court of Statesboro, naming as defendants in his suit the school and its trustees by name. ' The defendants, at the appearance term, made a motion to dismiss…