Dodd v. Middleton
Supreme Court of Georgia
United States Courts. Jurisdiction. Bankrupt. Before Judge Clark. Eulton Superior Court. March Term, 1879. Complainants brought their bill to recover of defendants-certain property. The bill showed that complainants claimed by virtue of being assignees of West, Edwards & Co., bankrupts. On motion the bill was dismissed for want of jurisdiction in the state court where it. was brought. Complainants exceptéd.
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
The error complained of in this case is the dismissal of the plaintiffs’ suit for want of jurisdiction, tinder the ruling of a majority of this court in Dodd et al. vs. Hammock et al., 59 Ga., 403, and the court was asked to review its decision in that case. The majority of the court have attentively listened to the argument for the plaintiffs in error in favor of the reversal of its ruling in the above cited case, and after duly considering the same, have come to the conclusion to reaffirm it, at least until the supreme court of the United States shall give to the acts…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dodd v. HammockSupreme Court of Georgia · 1877
3Cited by2 opinions
- Hopewell v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 1899
- In re Macon Sash, Door & Lumber Co.District Court, S.D. Georgia · 1901