Franklin v. Southern Railway Co.

TubneRj J.

1. Before one occupying the situation of a stakeholder can call upon adverse claimants of a fund in his hands to interplead, he must satisfactorily show to the court that their claims have such a “ foundation in law as will create a reasonable doubt ” as to his safety in undertaking to determine for himself to whom the fund belongs; for the “old rule, that the stakeholder is entitled to be removed beyond the shadow of a risk, and that, in order to entitle him to the protection of the court, it is only necessary to establish that suits have been brought, or that claimants have…