Dade Coal Co. v. Anderson

Certain executions were issued by the comptroller-general against the Dade Coal Company and others, for money due to the State of Georgia for the hire of convicts. These executions were levied by the sheriff of Dade county upon the property of this company. It filed an equitable petition in the superior court of that county, against the sheriff, and also against Anderson, Lowry, and the Lowry Banking Company, a corporation, which three last-named defendants, the petition alleged, were of Fulton county. It was further alleged in the petition, that though these executions had been in fact…