Oregon Mutual Insurance v. Cornelison

This is a proceeding in interpleader involving conflicting claims to the proceeds of a policy of fire insurance on a dwelling house in Elgin, Union County, Oregon, which was partially destroyed by fire. The plaintiff, Oregon Mutual Insurance Company, which issued the policy, feeling that it could not safely pay the money to any of the claimants, filed this suit, paid the money into court, and was discharged.

The following persons were made parties defendants : Mary A. Cornelison, who was a conditional-sale purchaser of the land on which the house was built, and her husband, C. E. Cornelison;…