Richardson v. Belt
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the complainants from a decree sustaining a demurrer to and dismissing a bill of inter-pleader. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill of inter-pleader. The bill was filed by Joseph Richardson and James A. Burgess against the following defendants: Robert V. Belt and T. Percy Myers, administrators of the estate of Zeplianiah Jones, The Washington Brick Company, and James H. McGill.
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Hearing on an appeal by the complainants from a decree sustaining a demurrer to and dismissing a bill of inter-pleader. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill of inter-pleader. The bill was filed by Joseph Richardson and James A. Burgess against the following defendants: Robert V. Belt and T. Percy Myers, administrators of the estate of Zeplianiah Jones, The Washington Brick Company, and James H. McGill. The facts alleged are substantially as follows : In June, 1896, Richardson and Burgess contracted with Joseph E. Willard to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
Liberally as, we confess, the remedy of interpleader ought *200to be applied in the protection of indifferent persons from vexatious suits by two or more separate claimants of a fund or thing of which they may be in possession, or charged with the safe keeping, without having any claim of beneficial interest therein, we do not think it can be extended to the complainants upon the facts alleged in their bill. They do not have the same legal relation with each defendant.
As between the administrators of Jones, upon the one hand, and his creditors upon the other, the complainants are not indifferent…
2Cited by1 opinion
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