South Texas Implement & MacHinery Co. v. Anahuac Canal Co.

This cause involves a controversy between a number of rival claimants to a fund of $4,174.19 in possession of the Standard Rice Company, and representing the proceeds of the sale to it by G. E. Barrow of his rice crop grown during the year 1921 on a farm he was cultivating in Chambers' county, Tex. After buying the rice but before paying for it," the rice company being besieged by different creditors of Barrow — one of them having run a garnishment on it out of the district court of Chambers county — went into the district court of Harris county, and, by bill of inter-pleader, sued Barrow and…