Provident Mutual Life Insurance v. Camerlin

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

COHILL, District Judge.

The plaintiffs here, Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia (“Provident”) and Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania (“Bell”), are both Pennsylvania corporations. They brought this interpleader action in an apparent effort to consolidate in one trial a number of disputes and potential disputes growing out of a policy of life insurance issued by Provident to Jack Walton, a former employee of Bell. By reason of his employment with Bell, Mr. Walton was insured under a Provident group insurance policy, issued in 1957. He had…