Atlanta National Building & Loan Ass'n v. Jones

1. Where, during the pendency of an equitable petition to marshal the assets of the estate of a decedent, the court passed an order which in effect adjudicated that a particular claim against the estate held by one of the defendants, a corporation, and by it alleged to be for a stated amount and also to be secured by a deed to realty, was for a less amount and unsecured, but no final judgment in the case was entered, such order was not the proper subject-matter of a direct bill of exceptions to this court, but of exceptions pendente lite.

2. The bill of exceptions now under consideration…