Hinsdale v. Bankers' Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Christine H. Hinsdale, from an order of ■the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York bn the 19th day of April, 1902, granting the defendant’s motion for an interpleader.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The order appealed from which grants a motion for interpleader must be reversed. The plaintiff holds by assignment full title to the policy of insurance upon which the action is brought. The motion papers disclose nothing but the fact that a claim has been made by a third party to the policy of insurance. Not a "single circumstance is mentioned to indicate that that claim has the slightest foundation. Ye have frequently held that something must be stated in the affidavits, upon applications of this character, to throw a real doubt upon- the right of the plaintiff to recover. .…
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