American Co. of Arkansas v. Wheeler

Hart, C. J.,

(after stating the facts). Counsel for the insurance companies claim that they were entitled to file a suit in the nature of a bill of interpleader in order to avoid a multiplicity of suits between the conflicting claimants to the fund 'agreed to be paid by the insurance companies on the fire insurance policies in question. They rely on the case of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company v. Moore, 92 Ark. 446, 123 S. W. 233, where it was held that a bill in the nature of interpleader is one in which the complainant seeks certain relief of an equitable nature concerning the…