Bruce v. Neal Bank
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Crum. Wilcox superior court. February 37, 1917. Mrs. L. M. Bruce filed in Wilcox superior court her petition against the Neal Bank and its receiver, of Fulton county, L. ,E. Gibbs, sheriff of Wilcox county, and Iial Lawson as attorney at law for the Neal Bank, and alleged substantially as follows: On March '18, 1907, the Neal Bank filed in the superior court of Wilcox county a petition against J. L. Bruce, in which it was alleged that on…
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Crum. Wilcox superior court. February 37, 1917. Mrs. L. M. Bruce filed in Wilcox superior court her petition against the Neal Bank and its receiver, of Fulton county, L. ,E. Gibbs, sheriff of Wilcox county, and Iial Lawson as attorney at law for the Neal Bank, and alleged substantially as follows: On March '18, 1907, the Neal Bank filed in the superior court of Wilcox county a petition against J. L. Bruce, in which it was alleged that on August 26, 1904, J. L. Bruce executed to Mrs. L. M. Bruce a note secured by mortgage on a certain half lot of land in the…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The third ground of the-demurrer raises the question of the jurisdiction of the superior court of Wilcox county, on the ground that the Neal Bank and its receiver are the only defendants against whom substantial relief is prayed, that these defendants are residents of Fulton and not of Wilcox county, and therefore that the superior court of Fulton county has jurisdiction of the case. Section 6540 of the Civil Code of 1910 provides that “Equity cases shall be tried in the county where a defendant resides against whom substantial relief is prayed.” It is…
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