Hartman v. Duke

Prentiss Hoop, a resident of the State of Mississippi, was killed in a railroad accident in the State of Arkansas. The administrator appointed in the State of Tennessee sned in the Circuit Court of Shelby County to enforce a claim for damages, for the unlawful death of his intestate, under the statutes of Arkansas, and recovered $7500 damages. •

A controversy arose among the next of kin as to the distribution of the proceeds of the suit, and the administrator, by a bill of interpleader presenting the facts, alleged that the father of his intestate was not living and the mother claimed all of…