Savage v. McCauley

When this cause was here on a previous occasion (Savage v. McCauley, 301 Mass. 162) this court held that the suit was in the nature of an interpleader in which the defendants Somerville Firemen’s Relief Association and John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company were mere stakeholders; that the then plaintiffs, John E. Savage, Jr. and Ruth E. Savage, on one side and the defendant McCauley on the other side were rival claimants to the insurance upon the life of John E. Savage; that in such a case any *458claimant must establish the validity of his own claim and may not prevail simply because of the…