Mayo v. Owen

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

To the petition of the administrator for interpleader to require named persons who claimed to be heirs to set up their claims, and for the court to adjudicate the lawful heirs, all defendants, except the husband of the deceased intestate, filed an answer which contained an allegation that the husband had been convicted of the murder of the deceased and is now serving a life sentence therefor. To this allegation Mayo, the husband, filed a demurrer upon the grounds that it was irrelevant and prejudicial. The court order thereon recites that “after hearing argument . .…