State v. Brobston

Lumpkin, Justice.

The Brunswick State bank, which was a State depository, became insolvent while indebted to the State. On the petition of certain creditors of the bank, a receiver was appointed to take charge of its assets, and the State, in whose behalf the governor had issued an ■execution according to law, became, by intervention, a party to the case, claiming that it had a first lien on all the assets and praying for an order directing the receiver to turn over to the State, in preference to all other claims, all moneys received by him from the assets and securities of the bank, until the…