Kerr v. White
Kerr v. White
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an application, by petition, to this court for a writ of injunction and for the appointment of a receiver, under the following circumstances:
John Kerr died in Shelby county, in 1870, leaving a large real and personal estate. He left a will, duly probated, by which he devised and bequeathed to complainants — three of his minor grandchildren — a considerable real and personal estate in Georgia, Mis
No application was made in the court below for writs of injunction to restrain F. M. White from paying over the funds of the estate to T. W. White, the trustee; nor was any application made for the appointment of a receiver.
The application is now made in this court for injunction, and for the appointment of a receiver pen-dente lite.
The petition alleges that the trustee is a man of comparatively small means, considering the large estate to be received by him as trustee; that the safety of the trust estate makes it necessary that it should be in the custody of the court pending the litigation; that the trustee is greatly undervaluing the amount of the estate, and that he is threatening to sell some of the real estate in Georgia, and petitioners are apprehensive that he will abuse the trust reposed in him by the testator, and that their estate will be squandered and lost. The petition is sworn to, and is accompanied by affidavits in support of some of the allegations in the petition.
This court has power to issue restraining orders, and to appoint receivers, when it becomes necessary and proper to exercise such powers, in the due administration of its appellate jurisdiction. But to exercise those powers, the property sought to be placed
In the present case, F. M. White is not a party to the cause in this court, and hence we have no jurisdiction to issue an injunction or other process against him.
The trust fund, now sought to be turned over to a receiver, was not taken into the custody of the court below by process of attachment, or by the appointment ■ of a receiver.
The application now to this court to impound the property and place it in the hands of a receiver, necessarily and palpably involves the exercise of original jurisdiction, and that, too, upon an ex parte application involving issues of fact as well as of law, as to which this court is expressly forbidden to exercise jurisdiction.
The petition is therefore dismissed with costs.
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