Brightwell v. Oglethorpe Telephone Co.

The Court of Appeals, and not the Supreme Court, has jurisdiction of this case. The jurisdictional question is whether the ease is an “equity case.” Civil Code (1910), § 6502. In the suit as amended the plaintiff, as a stockholder and alleged creditor, sought to have a receiver appointed for the purpose of *66winding np the affairs of a “corporation” whose charter had expired, and to recover against the company a sum alleged to be due to the plaintiff on an open account for supplies, services, and expenses alleged to have been furnished for the use and benefit of the company. The appointment of…