American Surety Co. v. Calcasieu Oil Co.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

In the above matter the American Surety Company of New York, as surety upon the bond of the Security Union Insurance Company, has filed in this court an inter-pleader proceeding under the federal statute, making a large number of the alleged creditors of the principal in the bond parties defendant. Certain of these defendants have opposed the discharge of the plaintiff upon the ground that it has not paid into court the full amount of its liability.

Plaintiff became the surety of the Security Union Insurance Company under the provisions of Act 172 of 1908 of the…