Case Name: Robert E. Dixon, adm'r &c., plaintiff in error, vs. Adolphus S. Rutherford, defendant in error
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1858-06
Citations: 26 Ga. 149
Docket Number: 
Parties: Robert E. Dixon, adm’r &c., plaintiff in error, vs. Adolphus S. Rutherford, defendant in error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 149–150

Head Matter:
Robert E. Dixon, adm’r &c., plaintiff in error, vs. Adolphus S. Rutherford, defendant in error.
An order authorizing the sale of property hy a receiver, to raise money to pay ■ taxes or for any other purpose, should specify the property to be sold; and should he founded upon satisfactory proof as to the necessity of such sale.
At the May Term, 1858, of the Superior Court of Muscogee county, Adolphus S. Rutherford as receiver of certain property belonging to the estate of Daniel McDougald, deceased, moved the Court on petition, for leave to sell some of the property of said estate, for the purpose of paying taxes on lands of said estate, in the States of Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. William Dougherty as the attorney of said' receiver, stating that said Receiver had no funds in hand; that taxes were due on said lands, in said States, and that a portion of said lands had been sold to pay the taxes ; and that the receiver had paid five or six hundred dollars of his own funds to redeem said lands, which were again about to be sold for taxes ; and that a sale of said property was necessary; which said statements were not denied or controverted. Robert E. Dixon, as administrator of Daniel Mc-Dougald, objected to the granting of said order ; and thereupon the Court after consideration, directed that the receiver have leave to sell a portion of the property placed in his charge as receiver, in the city of Columbus, after advertising the same in some public gazette, sixty days, to raise a sufficient amount of money, to refund the amount heretofore advanced by said receiver for the protection of said property; and an amount sufficient to prevent any further sale of sadi property for taxes. To the granting of which order, the said Dixon as administrator, &c., then and there excepted.
Jones & Jones; Wellborn, Johnson and Sloan, for plaintiff in error.
Wi. Dougherty, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
There are two objections to the order granted by the Court, in this case:
First: It is too vague and general. It specifies no particular property which is to be sold for the purpose of raising money to pay taxes. Under this indefinite authority, the receiver might sacrifice the most valuable real estate in the city of, Columbus, to raise funds to pay taxes upon other real estate in Arkansas and elsewhere. The money had best be obtained otherwise, if possible. And if property must be sold for this purpose, let it be designated in the order.
Our second objection to the order is, that it is not founded upon sufficient proof. The receiver makes the application upon the bare statement of the complainant in the creditor's bill, and who is the solicitor of the receiver in the prosecution of the suit.
We hold that the evidence is too uncertain and unsatisfactory to warrant the order.. It is set out in the bill of exceptions, that the statement upon which the order was granted, was not controverted or denied. Dixon as administrator of McDougald, was present resisting the order. And the onus was upon the party applying, to show by competent testimony, the necessity for passing the order.
Judgment reversed.