Moore Co., Inc. v. J.S. McConkey

This is an interpleader action, instituted by John A. Moore Co., Inc., a real estate dealer, plaintiff, against defendants Serena B. and Hans R. Lorsch and Anne G. and Max C. Reefer, owners of the Rasbach Hotel under a lease for a term of years, and defendant J.S. McConkey, who sought to purchase the hotel from the first named defendants through the agency of plaintiff, to whom McConkey paid $5000 as earnest money in connection with his offer to purchase.

Plaintiff alleged, and the evidence tended to prove, that defendants Lorsch and Reefer were the owners of a leasehold estate upon the land…