Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Holland

Mr. Presiding Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the court.

The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Vandalia, Illinois, hereinafter referred to as the complainant, filed a hill of interpleader to determine whether $1,200, held by it in escrow, should be returned to the depositors thereof, Mr. L. B. Holland, hereinafter referred to as the appellant or whether it should he paid to Rachel Harner, Joseph Pershing Harner, and Ida Mae Durbin, hereinafter referred to as the appellees.

It appears from the record that the appellant entered into a contract with the appellees to lease from them the northwest…