Legal Opinion

East Greenwich Institution for Savings v. Shippee

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided July 20, 1898Published

Bill of Interpleader to determine the title to a fund remaining in the hands of a mortgagee after sale of .the mortgaged property of a ward, the fund being claimed by the guardian as re-imbursement for a balance found due him from the ward’s estate upon a previous settlement of his account, and also claimed by the ward who had become of age before sale of the mortgaged property.

1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J.

This is a bill of interpleader to determine to whom shall be paid the sum of $213.74, which is the surplus remaining in the mortgagee’s hands after satisfying the mortgagee’s claim out of the proceeds of a mortgagee’s sale of certain real estate, and which sum is now in the registry of the court, less $25 allowed to the plaintiff for expenses of this suit, the sum now in the registry of the court awaiting further order being $188.74, with interest that may accrue.

Thaddeus Sprague and Sarah M. Sprague, his wife, were the parents of two children, the defendant Mabel A. Shippee and one Thaddeus…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Hyland v. . BaxterNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
  2. Jones v. ParkerTexas Supreme Court · 1886
  3. Bellamy v. ThorntonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
  4. Cummins v. CumminsIllinois Supreme Court · 1862
  5. Boyd v. HawkinsMississippi Supreme Court · 1882

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