Williams v. Wright
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Collin. Tried below before the Hon. Nat. M. Burford. Suit by McQuinney H. Wright against W. A. Williams, commenced February 7th, 1857, on a promissory note of said Williams for $2,000, dated July 27th, 1855, payable on or before .the first day of January, 1857, to Mary Standifer or bearer, reciting that it was given in part payment for a tract of land that day purchased from the said Mary ; indorsed on the back “ pay to bearer, this 10th Nov. 1855,” signed M. W.…
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Error from Collin. Tried below before the Hon. Nat. M. Burford. Suit by McQuinney H. Wright against W. A. Williams, commenced February 7th, 1857, on a promissory note of said Williams for $2,000, dated July 27th, 1855, payable on or before .the first day of January, 1857, to Mary Standifer or bearer, reciting that it was given in part payment for a tract of land that day purchased from the said Mary ; indorsed on the back “ pay to bearer, this 10th Nov. 1855,” signed M. W. Mathews; and assignment to M. H. Wright, Feb. 14, 1856, by D. J. Thomas and W. B. Thomas. Plaintiff alleged that he…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
In the practice in Courts of Chancery, a bill of interpleader lies where two or more persons claim the same debt or duty of the complainant by separate interests; when he, not knowing to which of the complainants he ought, of right, to pay or render it, fears that he may sustain injury by the conflicting *503claims of the parties. He then applies to a Court of Equity to protect him, not only from rendering the debt or duty to both the claimants, but also from the vexation attending upon the suits, which are, or may be instituted against him. (Story’s Eq. Sec. 806; 1 Cowen, 703.) “ It claims no…
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