Ford Motor Co. v. Hackart Construction Co.

FORMAN, Chief Judge.

This interpleader action was begun by a complaint filed February 18, 1955, in which the United States was named a party defendant. The suit arose in the following fashion:

The defendant Hackart Construction Company, as general contractor, agreed with the plaintiff, the Ford Motor Company, to perform construction work at. the site of the plaintiff’s plant at Metuchen, New Jersey. Subsequently, the plaintiff found itself confronted with many claims to money which it owed Hackart and which totaled far in excess of the amount Hackart had yet to be paid.

This suit in interpleader…