Shintaffer v. Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Co.

This action is in the nature of a hill of interpleader filed by plaintiff George C. Shintaffer to determine conflicting claims to a one-fourth portion of the wheat crop grown and harvested by him during the year 1930 on land in Sutter County leased from defendant Henry D. Hook, under a lease providing for delivery of one-fourth of the wheat crop to the lessor. By consent a judgment for one-third of said one-fourth portion of the crop was awarded to Ellis Hook, an incompetent person, who owned an undivided one-third interest in the leased property and did not join in the execution of said…