169 Ga. 641 | Ga. | 1929
The Lowry Company filed a creditor’s bill against J. H. Entrican, seeking to subject described property oE which Entrican was alleged to be the owner, known as No. 1468 Mosely Place S. W., in the City of Atlanta, to the claim of duly recorded liens in favor of the petitioner and other materialmen for material furnished Entrican in erecting a house on said premises. It was alleged that Entrican was insolvent and had abandoned the property and stopped work on the house; that as between themselves the claims of materialmen were of equal dignity.; and that the defendant owed some part of the purchase-price to Dr. John W. Turner, but, as the claim of Turner was not of record, the petitioner could not state the amount thereof. The appointment of a receiver to preserve the property until the same could be sold was prayed. The court appointed a temporary receiver. The receiver
After a hearing the judge of the superior court dissolved a previous restraining order and refused an interlocutory injunction. In the state of the record this court can not hold that the judge erred or that he abused his discretion in the matter. It appears from the bill of exceptions that no evidence whatever was introduced upon the hearing, it being recited that “after considering the pleadings and argument of counsel” the court passed his order, etc. The original petition was .filed by Lowry Company, with an allegation that there were many lien holders and creditors having claims against the property of the defendant; and there was a prayer that other creditors similarly situated be allowed and required to intervene and be restrained from prosecuting-separate actions, and that a receiver be appointed. The temporary receiver filed an intervention or petition asking that H. H. Turner, trustee, be made a party and required to appear and set up such right, title, and interest as he may claim, and be restrained from holding any sale or making any conveyance by virtue of any alleged power of sale he may claim to have. It appears from the pleadings, and especially from the answer of Turner and the exhibits thereto, that he has been invested with title to the property which was improved by the assignor of the petitioner Lowry Company, since June 21, 1928, by virtue of a conveyance from J. H. Entrican, to whom
So it is not necessary to say more than that to offset this proof in behalf of the intervenor the original petitioner, who claimed a lien as a materialman, did not show when the lien assigned to it was filed (other than the statement that it was filed within three months after the work was done, without any statement as to when the work was actually done), or for what the lien was claimed, other than the statement that it was for work and labor installing the plumbing in the house in question, without stating when the work was done, or whether it was done by order of the owner, or, if not, what agent of the owner directed the installation; so that as proof in support of a lien the various statements of the petition are too vague and indefinite to have authorized the foreclosure of a lien, and therefore would not have authorized the court to enjoin the sale of the property by the holder of the title to the property said to have been improved, in the absence of an allegation that he had by fraud induced the improvement of his property to the injury and damage of the lienor. There is no such allegation anywhere in the pleadings, and hence the court did not have any such proposition submitted to him. The court did not err in refusing an interlocutory injunction.
Judgment affirmed.