Commerce Trust Co. v. Watts

Commerce Trust Company, a banking corporation (hereinafter called the Trust Company), having a sum of money on joint deposit, filed its bill of interpleader in the Jackson County circuit court against JIattie Watts (hereinafter called appellant), and George L. Birlew, Executor of the Estate of Amos B. Crandall (hereinafter called respondent). In its bill the Trust Company prayed that those parties be required to interplead and that the court determine which of those parties “is entitled to receive payment” of the funds in.the joint deposit in question. The cause was tried before the court…