Penn Mutual Life Insurance v. Mulvaney

This action is by way of interpleader on an insurance policy issued by the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Eleanor Mulvaney and Mary Mulvaney are defendants. On the commencement of the action the Penn Mutual Company confessed liability on the policy in the sum of $5,000, subject to certain deductions which are not in dispute, and paid the balance into the hands of the clerk of the court. The action then resolved itself, under the pleadings, into a question of which of the two defendants was entitled to the money thus paid into the hands of the clerk of the court.

On the 2d day of June,…