Farming Corp. v. Bridgeport Bank

Shepherd, District Judge.

This is a case in which the plaintiffs sue the defendant for the conversion of $1,500 in cash and a $2,750 mortgage deposited by them in escrow with it, alleging that, because of the failure of the Bridgeport Irrigation District to extend and improve its ditches according to a contract with plaintiffs (which contract was deposited in escrow with the money and mortgage), said money and mortgage should have been returned to them, but was not, although they made due demand for the same.

The defendant, which is a bank, filed an affidavit of inter-pleader, in which it says…