Legal Opinion
Continental Insurance v. Pipher
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided August 2, 1996No. Civil Action 95-101 MMSPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, Senior District Judge.
I. Introduction
The motions before the Court arise out of an interpleader action commenced by plaintiff Continental Insurance Company (“Continental”). Docket Item (“D.I. 1”). As a result of an accident caused by one of its insureds, fourteen claimants filed competing claims for the insurance proceeds of $300,-000. In order to avoid these conflicting claims, Continental commenced an inter-pleader and declaratory judgment action against all fourteen defendants, of which three now remain (collectively, “defendants”). One group of defendants, the…
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