United Life & Accident Insurance v. North Atlantic Securities Corp.

The rule that the plaintiff in a bill of interpleader has no interest beyond obtaining a decree that the bill has been properly filed (Barrett v. Cady, 78 N. H. 60, 63; Farley v. Blood, 30 N. H. 354, 363, 364) presupposes that the court has jurisdiction of the contending claimants. It is a fundamental principle of law that every person has a right to insist that a judgment or decree to which he is a party shall have all the attributes of a judicial determination.

The defendants’ contention that after the decree the plaintiff had no standing to object need not be considered, since the question…