Jones v. Dougherty
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Muscogee Superior Court. Decision by Judge Iverson, at Chambers, April 9, 1851. On the 3rd day of March, in the year 1851, Wm.
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In Equity, in Muscogee Superior Court. Decision by Judge Iverson, at Chambers, April 9, 1851. On the 3rd day of March, in the year 1851, Wm. Dougherty, in behalf of himself and other creditors of Daniel McDougald, deceased, filed a bill returnable to Muscogee Superior Court, against Seaborn Jones, charging, that on the 25lh day of August, 1846, Daniel McDougald made an assignment of a very large amount of property, consisting of lands, negroes, debts and obligations, and other valuable interests, to Seaborn Jones and Robert B. Alexander, (since deceased,) to hold as trustees for the benefit…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
*280The error assigned in this case is, 1st, in overruling the showing made by Jones, the trustee of McDougald, against the appointment of a receiver in his stead. 2d, in the appointment of Adolphus S. Rutherford as such receiver.
[1.] At the .hearing, it was insisted that the Judge had no power to appoint a receiver in vacation. As this ground is no where noticed in the very able and ample brief of the counsel for the plaintiff in error, I might properly pass it by. I would remark, however, that the power here claimed, has been exercised throughout…
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