Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias v. Rutzler
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a qlecree of the court of chancery advised by Vice-Chancellor Lewis, whose opinion is reported in-86 N, J. Eq. 387.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Parker, J.
The suit would be essentially one of interpleader except for the fact that complainant before filing its bill had already paid over the fund to one of the claimants and sought by the bill to be protected in that-course, and to secure an injunction against the further prosecution of a suit at law by the other claimant.
The fund was the proceecls of a death benefit certificate issued by the complainant to Henry B.-Lupton in his lifetime. At the time of his death it was payable to “his daughter Lillian M. Rutzler as trustee for his daughter…
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