Baker v. Baldwin County Bank

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a suit of interpleader filed by Baldwin County Bank. Appellant and W. D. Stapleton are alleged in it to be the claimants.

Mr. Stapleton in his answer averred that though he paid to the bank the amount described in the bill, it was then owned by W. R. Stuart. Thereupon Stuart filed an intervention in which he alleged that the money was then and always had been his, and was never the property of the claimant Baker, nor of Stapleton, who did not claim it.

The evidence is that appellant owned certain land in Baldwin county, which had been sold for taxes. She and Stapleton…