Hecht v. Snook & Austin Furniture Co.

Samuel Hecbt Jr. & Sons brought suit in the city -court of Atlanta against the P. H. Snook & Austin Furniture Company upon an open account. To this action the defendant filed a plea “by way of counter-claim,” alleging that the plaintiffs bad damaged it in the sum of $15,000, by reason of an equitable petition which the plaintiffs and other creditors of the defendant had caused to be filed against it, seeking to place the management of the business of the defendant in the hands of a receiver for the benefit of its creditors, and that under this petition so filed the defendant was temporarily…