Case Name: Knight et al., receivers, v. State of Georgia et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1912-02-14
Citations: 137 Ga. 537
Docket Number: 
Parties: Knight et al., receivers, v. State of Georgia et al.
Judges: All the Justices concur, except Hill, J., not presiding.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 137
Pages: 537–537

Head Matter:
Knight et al., receivers, v. State of Georgia et al.
February 14, 1912.
Intervention. Before Judge Seabrook. Ware superior court. December 12, 1910.
Joseph W. Bennet, Parks & Reed, and John T. Myers, for plaintiffs in error. Lankford & Dickerson, contra.

Opinion:
Atkinson, J.
1. The principle ruled in County of Glynn v. Brunswick Terminal Co., 101 Ga. 244 (28 S. E. 604), is controlling in this ease. Accordingly, where funds arising partly from oil-inspection fees, and partly from private donations, had been turned over to and were in the hands of trustees of a school of agriculture and mechanic arts, established in a particular congressional district, under the Civil Code, § 1552 et seq., and were deposited by the treasurer of the board of trustees in his own name, as such, in a bank which was a State depository, and which failed, this did not constitute such a debt due to the State as created a lien in its favor by virtue of its general sovereignty, or under the law in reference to State depositories, embodied in the Civil Code, § 1249 et seq.
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concur, except Hill, J., not presiding.