Van Orden v. Anderson

THE COURT.

This action involves two appeals from the judgment entered in a suit in interpleader, one taken by the intervener and the other by one of the defendants to the original action.

The Jenny Wren Stores, Inc., was a Delaware corporation operating chain stores in California. In 1927 a bill in equity for the appointment of a receiver of the business was filed in the federal court, and this was followed by a petition to have the corporation adjudicated an involuntary bankrupt. Thereafter certain of its creditors, for the purpose of protecting their interests, appointed a committee (which…