Legal Opinion
J. B. Withers Cigar Co. v. Kirkpatrick
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided April 15, 1943No. 14479PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bell, Presiding Justice.
J. B. Withers Cigar Company filed a suit in equity against Mrs. Lillian Kirkpatrick Jr., individually and doing business as Kirkpatrick Pharmacy, the action being brought 'as a creditors’ petition against an insolvent trader, under the Code, title 28, chapter 4. P. L. Bardin and King S. Cone, as trustees of the estate of Thomas H. Pitts, deceased, intervened for the purpose of asserting a landlord’s general lien for rent. The court sustained their claim of priority, and to this judgment the Cigar Company excepted.
Various other creditors intervened in the comet below,…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Central Railroad & Banking Co. of Ga. v. PettusSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Miller v. SherrySupreme Court of the United States · 1865
- Henderson v. MayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Freedman's Savings & Trust Co. v. EarleSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Robinson v. Bank of DarienSupreme Court of Georgia · 1855
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Shaw v. CaldwellSupreme Court of Georgia · 1972
- Miller v. WestCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1951