Seneca Insurance v. Daniel

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

Seneca Insurance Company (“Seneca”) filed the instant suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee (the “Seneca Action”) against Wayne Daniel, the appellant, seeking a declaration as to whether Daniel was entitled to the proceeds of a fire insurance policy. Pursuant to an order of the district court, Seneca deposited the $145,000 in disputed insurance proceeds in an escrow account at Frontier Bank in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In a separate action (the “Garnishment Action”), Kris Well-born, the appellee, who had registered a foreign…