Landers Investment Company v. Brown

— This action was instituted by the filing of a bill of interpleader. The controversy here, as in the court below, is between- certain of the defendants who claim adversely to each other rents accruing under a ninety-nine-year lease of real estate.

There is no dispute as to the facts. On April 29, 1909, Lizzie M. Sittler was the owner in fee of a tract of land in Springfield, Missouri. Blanche Sittler was her only child and heir apparent. On that date Lizzie M. Sittler and Blanche Sittler by a certain indenture demised the real estate just referred to to John T. Woodruff for a term of…