Armour Fertilizer Works v. Sanders

The conclusion of the majority is in'effect that an inchoate garnishment proceeding by publication, begun in Illinois, limits the general jurisdiction of a federal court in Texas in an interpleader suit to hear, determine, and decree, by compelling it to deny to the head of a Texas family, the homestead exemption which Texas laws guarantee. I feel strongly that the decision, in requiring a Texas court to deprive a Texas family of its homestead exemption to pay a debt incurred and payable in Texas, is harsh and unjust, subversive of the public policy of Texas and its established social order.…