Omaha Printing Co. v. Mack

Omaha Printing Company offered a reward of $500 for the apprehension of the murderer of its salesman, Russell Goodwin. The murderer was apprehended and confessed. Thereupon so many parties claimed the reward, or a share of it, that Omaha Printing Company brought a suit in equity interpleading those parties known to it as claimants and deposited the reward in court to be paid to the claimant or claimants equitably entitled to it. After a trial the court decreed as follows:

“That after the payment to plaintiff of its costs of $11.00 that the following defendants be paid the following proportions…