Cozart v. Johnson

Bell, Justice.

Mrs. F. A. Cozart filed suit alleging the following facts: For several years the Citizens National Bank occupied, as a tenant of the plaintiff, a building in Washington, Georgia, where it conducted its banking business. On or about January 26, 1926, the bank ceased to do business, and appointed R. R. Johnson and other named persons as trustees for such of its assets as were not sold and delivered to the National Bank of Wilkes, and at the same time abandoned the occupancy and tenancy of the plaintiff’s building. The plaintiff then took possession of the building and the entire…