Jordan v. ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES, INC.

After foreclosure of the interest of the Jordans under a deed to secure debt, Atlanta Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc., filed this dispossessory proceeding against them in the State Court of Fulton County. In a separate civil action previously filed and then pending in the Superior Court of Fulton County, the superior court had refused to enjoin the foreclosure.

The Jordans appeal to this Court from entry by the state court of an order granting a writ of possession. They contend that these dispossessory proceedings involved a question of title to land; hence, that the state court lacked…