MacLennan v. Yee Chong
District Court, D. Hawaii
In Equity: Interpleader.
1Opinion of the CourtDole, J.
The plaintiff as the agent of the Treasurer of the United States for the disbursement of a fund of one million dollars appropriated by Congress for payment, in .part, of judgments rendered by the Fire Claims Commission of the Territory of Hawaii, brought this bill of interpleader against the defendants, in relation to a sum of money in the amount of $1178.85, held by him as a part of the said fund to answer to a certain judgment of the said Fire Claims Commission in favor of the defendant Tee Chong. The bill complained that the Tee Chong company and Bishop and Company and Cecil Brown…
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