Davis v. Davis
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for interpleader, etc. Before Judge Jenkins. Greene county. December 28, 1894. The executors of Charles A. Davis brought their petition against Hart & Sibley, attorneys at law, and Mrs. Icelia E. Davis, widow of Charles A. Davis, to enjoin them from prosecuting suits they had brought against petitioners, and to require them to interplead and establish their respective rights to a fund in petitioners’ hands; and for direction as to how petitioners should further…
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Petition for interpleader, etc. Before Judge Jenkins. Greene county. December 28, 1894. The executors of Charles A. Davis brought their petition against Hart & Sibley, attorneys at law, and Mrs. Icelia E. Davis, widow of Charles A. Davis, to enjoin them from prosecuting suits they had brought against petitioners, and to require them to interplead and establish their respective rights to a fund in petitioners’ hands; and for direction as to how petitioners should further comply with a previous decree touching the settlement with said widow, and the payment of the balance of the indebtedness…
1Opinion of the Court
Atkinson, Justice.
The facts upon which the questions were made in this case are sufficiently stated in the official report.
The general principles announced in the first, second and third head-notes are such as not to require further elaboration than is therein stated. To a correct -appli*142cation of ’them to the facts óf this case, it is only necessary that the circumstances under which this litigation arose be briefly stated. The plaintiff's in the petition for interpleader were the executors upon an estate. In the course of its administration, a charge thereon was established in favor of one…
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