Vason v. Clanton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition, etc. Before Judge Callaway. Richmond superior court. October term, 1896. On August 10, 1895, Henry H. Cumming, a judgment creditor of Mrs. Gertrude Thomas, filed in the superior court of Richmond county his petition for the appointment of partitioned or a receiver to sell, for division of the proceeds, certain real estate in the city of Augusta in which Mrs. Thomas was entitled to an undivided one-sixth interest, under the will of her father, Turner…
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Equitable petition, etc. Before Judge Callaway. Richmond superior court. October term, 1896. On August 10, 1895, Henry H. Cumming, a judgment creditor of Mrs. Gertrude Thomas, filed in the superior court of Richmond county his petition for the appointment of partitioned or a receiver to sell, for division of the proceeds, certain real estate in the city of Augusta in which Mrs. Thomas was entitled to an undivided one-sixth interest, under the will of her father, Turner Clanton, deceased, it being alleged in the petition that, owing to the location, dimensions and improvements, it was…
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
1. While a court of equity, when it has all the necessary parties before it and has once taken jurisdiction of a particular subject-matter, will ordinarily proceed to do complete justice, and finally administer the rights of each of the respective parties, it will not extend its jurisdiction in such manner as to draw to itself collateral matters not appropriately comprehended within the scope of the original proceeding under which, in the first instance, it assumed jurisdiction, and especially where such collateral matters have already been, by appropriate judicial proceedings, committed to…
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