Central Bank v. Georgia Grocery Co.

The Georgia Grocery Company instituted a trover proceeding against J. J. & J. E. Maddox to recover certain personal property described in the petition. . In connection with its suit, the plaintiff made the statutory affidavit to require bail, and the property was seized by the sheriff. The Central Bank of Oakland, California, filed its claim affidavit and bond, in the usual form, alleging in the affidavit that the property seized by the sheriff under the trover proceedings was not the property of the defendant in the suit, but the property of the claimant. On the trial of the trover…