Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Cook
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on February 4, 1914, and afterwards amended, praying that the defendants, Lemuel W. Cook and Harry R. Stanley, administrator of the estate of Charles R. Stanley, be ordered to interplead as to their respective rights in the proceeds of a certain matured endowment life insurance policy in the sum of $25,000 issued by the plaintiff to the defendant Cook on February 20, 1893, which the defendant Stanley as administrator…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on February 4, 1914, and afterwards amended, praying that the defendants, Lemuel W. Cook and Harry R. Stanley, administrator of the estate of Charles R. Stanley, be ordered to interplead as to their respective rights in the proceeds of a certain matured endowment life insurance policy in the sum of $25,000 issued by the plaintiff to the defendant Cook on February 20, 1893, which the defendant Stanley as administrator claimed under an alleged assignment by Cook, notice of which Stanley gave to the plaintiff on August 25, 1913, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtBkaley, J.
The plaintiff asks by a bill of interpleader for protection against suits by the defendants to recover the proceeds of a policy in which it disclaims any interest, and, on filing the bill, *225irregularly paid the money into court to abide the result between the rival claimants. If, however, an obligation to one of the defendants connected with the assignment of the policy which cannot be determined in a litigation between themselves has been incurred, no decree allowing the company to retire and ordering, them to interplead should be entered. It is settled that such a decree is an adjudication…
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