Locomotive Engineers Mutual Life & Accident Insurance v. Locke

By its complaint in this interpleader action the relief sought by the plaintiff insurer is “ That the plaintiff may be ordered and directed to pay the amount of the proceeds of said policy of insurance, to wit, the sum of $1,369.50, into court, and that the said defendants, and each of them, may be ordered and decreed to interplead and settle between themselves the rights or claims to the money due under said policy of insurance.” Upon issues framed by answers interposed by the two defendants — each of whom lays claim to the proceeds of the policy in suit — judgment has thus far proceeded in…