Builders Lumber Co. v. Hunt

Builders Lumber Company applied for a receiver, an injunction, and other equitable relief against J. E. Hunt, a recently adjudicated bankrupt, praying that his property be impounded for the satisfaction of a purchase-money liability claimed by the company. Hunt filed a general demurrer, which was sustained by the court. The allegations of the petition material to the issue involved are that plaintiff, a materialman, brought in the municipal court of Macon an action to establish and foreclose a materialman’s lien on the defendant’s property, the petition not asking a judgment in personam, but…