State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Elkins

DUNAGAN, Chief Justice.

This suit originated as an interpleader suit by Travelers Insurance Company and their insured, Ivy Hawthorne, to determine the rightful owner of $1,509.67. Willie Elkins, Sr. and his automobile insurer, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance, were impleaded as defendants. The $1,509.-67 was part of a judgment obtained by El-kins against the interpleaders. State Farm asserted by cross-action that it owned the fund on deposit because it was subrogated to Elkins’ cause of action against Hawthorne to that extent. Elkins claimed the fund contending that State Farm had lost…