Reed v. Equitable Trust Co.

The Equitable Trust Company brought, in the city court of Atlanta, an action against Mrs. Mary A. Reed, of Fulton county, to recover the amount due on a bond the payment of which was secured by a deed to land situated in the county of Columbia. The plaintiff prayed in its petition, not only for a general judgment against Mrs. Reed, but also that its special lien upon the land just mentioned be set up and established. The defendant relied on an answer in which the fact was recited that she had filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, and in which she prayed that the plaintiff’s action be…