Swift & Co. v. Russell

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

In an action in the United States court in the Indian Territory which the plaintiff in error, Swift & Co., a corporation, had brought against one Guy, and in which the plaintiff had caused a writ of attachment to be levied upon certain property, the defendant in error, G. S. Russell, filed an interplea, in which he claimed the attached property as its owner. The plaintiff denied his claim, and at the trial of the issue between the plaintiff and the interpleader the court permitted the latter to prove and to recover a judgment for the value of the attached property which…