186 Ga. 107 | Ga. | 1938
B. L. Smith bxought his petition against Olin Moore as administrator of the estate of J. B. Moore, and J. L. Kinnerly, for injunction, cancellation, and general equitable relief. A general demurrer to the petition was sustained, and the petitioner excepted.
It is alleged in the petition: “2. Petitioner shows that prior to and during the year of 1926 he was indebted to the Georgia State Bank at Bowdon, Georgia, in an amount approximating $700, and during said year the superintendent of banks sold the assets of said bank to L. E. Wilson, J. G. Smith, W. L. Brooks, and J. B. Barnes as trustees of said bank. 3. That on January 21, 1927, your petitioner renewed his indebtedness to said bank by executing a note to L. E. Wilson, J. G. Smith, W. L. Brooks, and J. B. Barnes as trustees of said hank, and executed a security deed to said trustees to secure said debt to the following described land to wit: . . 4. Petitioner shows that the Georgia State Bank of Bowdon closed and was turned over to the State superintendent of banks on July 14, 1926, and the superintendent of banks undertook to sell the assets of said bank, including the debt of your petitioner, to the above-named trustees. 5. Petitioner shows that after he executed the note and deed to said trustees as aforesaid that said note and deed were by said trustees transferred to J. B. Moore and J. L. Kinnerly in payment of deposits of funds belonging to them in the Georgia State Bank at the time it was closed. 6. Petitioner further shows that the said Olin Moore as administrator of the estate of J. B. Moore, deceased, and J. L. Kinnerly, through and by their attorney at law, Willis Smith, acting under a power of sale in said security deed, have advertised petitioner’s property herein described for sale on the first Tuesday in February, 1934. 7. Petitioner shows that the note and deed executed by him was procured by fraud by the defendants in this case, and that no title passed from Georgia State Bank or the superintendent of banks to said indebtedness to the above-named trustee, and that no title passed from said trustees to the defendants of the indebtedness of petitioner or the lien on his property, for the reason that the purported sale from the superintendent of banks of the assets of the Georgia State Bank to the within named trustees was illegal, null and void, and passed no title to the assets of said bank, and said trustees could not transfer the assets be