Dennard v. Farmers & Merchants Bank
Supreme Court of Georgia
Attachment for contempt. Before Judge Thomas. Thomas superior court. August 25, 1920. The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Coolidge filed a petition for injunction, receiver, etc., against C. S. Dennard, L. V. Dennard et al.; and to an interlocutory order appointing a receiver and granting the injunction and other relief, as prayed in the petition, the defendants excepted.
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Attachment for contempt. Before Judge Thomas. Thomas superior court. August 25, 1920. The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Coolidge filed a petition for injunction, receiver, etc., against C. S. Dennard, L. V. Dennard et al.; and to an interlocutory order appointing a receiver and granting the injunction and other relief, as prayed in the petition, the defendants excepted. This court reversed that judgment, upon the ground that the granting of the interlocutory injunction against certain of the 'defendants, and the granting of the injunction against any of the defendants generally, was…
1Opinion of the CourtGeorge, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) In' the view we take of this case, a continuance or postponement of the hearing of the contempt case should have been granted. The motion for continuance or postponement was technically complete. So far as *447the merits of it are concerned, it appears without dispute that upon the filing of the original petition for injunction the defendants immediately employed Mr. Theo Titus, of the firm of Titus & Dekle, to represent them in all the proceedings that had been brought or that might be brought against them by the plaintiff bank. The contract was with Mr.…
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