National Casket Co. v. Clark

Bell, Justice.

The bill of .exceptions complains only of the refusal of the court to appoint a receiver, as prayed by the plaintiff, in a suit by the National Casket Company of Georgia against Mrs. C. N. Clark and her son, J. Laurin Clark. The order refusing to appoint a receiver stated that it was not passed in the exercise of discretion, but that the petition was denied “simply because the law seems to demand it under the evidence and under the record.” So, the question for decision is whether or not the appointment of a receiver would have been authorized in the exercise of discretion.…