Union Trust Co. v. Stamford Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Actios for an injunction and an order in tlie nature of interpleader, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Prentice, J., upon a demurrer to the amended complaint, filed by all the defendants except Timothy H. Porter; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendants other than said Porter, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Actios for an injunction and an order in tlie nature of interpleader, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Prentice, J., upon a demurrer to the amended complaint, filed by all the defendants except Timothy H. Porter; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendants other than said Porter, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. So far as the record disclosed, no judgment of any kind had been rendered by the court as between the plaintiff and Timothy H. Porter. • The defendants were the Stamford…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
A bill of interpleader, under the old English chancery practice, could only be maintained by a stakeholder having no interest in the disposition of the fund, nor any substantial right of his own to be litigated, and who had incurred no independent liability by his own act or contract to either of those having conflicting claims to it. These rules were somewhat relaxed in the system of equity pleading formerly followed in this State, and it was intimated by the court that it might conduce to the ends of justice to relax them still further, and to do away with the distinction between bills of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Comstock v. Hadlyme Ecclesiastical SocietySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1830
- Porter v. RitchSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
- Consociated Presbyterian Society v. StaplesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1855
- Hollister v. Union Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1833
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- Ackerman v. Union & New Haven Trust Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1915
- Brown v. ClarkSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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