120 Ga. 428 | Ga. | 1904
The petition of S. R. Sims against the Cordele Ice Company, Hill, Parker, Ryals, Mrs. G. R. Sims, and T. L. Blackwell as administrator of G. R. Sims was met by a demurrer on the grounds that it set out no cause off action, and that there was a misjoinder of causes of action and^a misjoinder of parties defendant. The judge of the superior court, after argument thereon, sustained the demurrer and dismissed the equitable petition. This court held that the petition set out a cause of action, but that the special demurrer should have been sustained because there was a misjoinder of causes of action and of parties defendant. It affirmed the judgment of the lower court, with directions that the plaintiff be allowed to meet the objections raised by the special grounds of the demurrer, and that upon his doing so the case stand for trial as thus amended, and upon his failure to do this the judgment below be unconditionally affirmed. 119 Ga. 597. On the return of the
Nor does the cross-bill of the plaintiff show any reason for interfering with the judgment of the court in allowing the ice company to give the bond in lieu of having the property placed in the hands of a receiver. In the first place, Sims applied for such appointment when his suit was originally begun. Palmer was appointed receiver if within a time specified the defendants failed to execute the bond required. There was no exception to the terms of that order, which practically remained in abeyance because subsequently the case was dismissed on general demurrer. On the return of the remittitur and the filing of the amendment retaining the case in court the existing order as to the receivership or bond became fully effective. The plaintiff was bound by the state of the record, and was not entitled to more than good security. A receivership is not intended to be better than an action of ejectment or trover, so as to take property from a defendant claiming title and right of possession. The defendant’s solvency makes the court treat him as a quasi receiver, the property in such cases being regarded as in safe hands. Huggins v. Huggins, 117 Ga. 160. “Receivers are not appointed as matter of right, but to preserve rights.” Id. 152 (6). And the reluctance of the court on interlocutory orders to interfere with the possession of property is such that in most cases it regards the giving of a good and solvent bond as meeting the equities of the case as fully as would the change of possession on the appointment of a receiver.
" Judgment on the main and cross-bill of exceptions affirmed.