McDonald Mortgage & Realty Co. v. Feingold

The McDonald Mortgage & Realty Company having brought suits in the city court of Albany against Feingold on certain notes which had been given for a part of the purchase-money of a lot of land located in Lakeland, Florida, the defendant Feingold filed his petition to restrain their prosecution, on the ground that he could not there make his defense to the suits, as the same involved “the granting of affirmative relief, same being an equitable set-off, beyond the jurisdiction” of the court in which those suits were pending. Petitioner set forth the facts constituting the ground of his…