Case Name: Dodd et al., assignees, vs. Middleton et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1879-09
Citations: 63 Ga. 635
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dodd et al., assignees, vs. Middleton et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 63
Pages: 635–639

Head Matter:
Dodd et al., assignees, vs. Middleton et al.
1. Tlie United States courts have exclusive jurisdiction of ail matters and proceedings in bankruptcy.
2. A biil in equity which shows that the rights claimed accrued to ■ the complainants as assignees of a bankrupt, is on its face such a proceeding. 'When brought in a state court, it will be dismissed on-motion for want of jurisdiction.
Bleckley, .Justice, dissented.
United States Courts. Jurisdiction. Bankrupt. Before Judge Clark. Eulton Superior Court. March Term, 1879.
Complainants brought their bill to recover of defendants-certain property. The bill showed that complainants claimed by virtue of being assignees of West, Edwards & Co., bankrupts. On motion the bill was dismissed for want of jurisdiction in the state court where it. was brought. Complainants exceptéd.
P. L. Mynatt ; Henry Hillyer, for plaintiffs in error.
H. K. McCay ; Jno. L. Hopkins, for defendants.

Opinion:
Warner, Chief Justice.
The error complained of in this case is the dismissal of the plaintiffs' suit for want of jurisdiction, tinder the ruling of a majority of this court in Dodd et al. vs. Hammock et al., 59 Ga., 403, and the court was asked to review its decision in that case. The majority of the court have attentively listened to the argument for the plaintiffs in error in favor of the reversal of its ruling in the above cited case, and after duly considering the same, have come to the conclusion to reaffirm it, at least until the supreme court of the United States shall give to the acts of congress a different interpretation'. Let the judgment of the court below be affirmed.