Ransom v. Bidwell
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of interpleader to determine the rights of the respective defendants in and to a sum of money in the hands of the plaintiff, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Bennett, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of the claimants J. H. and W. E. Cone and the Hampden Lumber Company, from which the Edwin Taylor Lumber Company appealed.
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Action of interpleader to determine the rights of the respective defendants in and to a sum of money in the hands of the plaintiff, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Bennett, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of the claimants J. H. and W. E. Cone and the Hampden Lumber Company, from which the Edwin Taylor Lumber Company appealed. September 7th, 1911, the plaintiff, Ransom, entered into a written contract with J. B. Suprenant and C. M. Hebert for the construction of an apartment house. Article 12 of the contract provided as follows: “In case the owner…
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
Upon the trial the Taylor Lumber Company claimed that the attachments made by J. H. and W. E. Cone and Hampden Lumber Company were premature, in that nothing was due from the plaintiff which would be subject to process of foreign attachment at the time their attachments were made. The Superior Court overruled this claim and rendered judgment for the other two defendants. This ruling is substantially the only question presented by the reasons of appeal of the Taylor Lumber Company.
General Statutes, § 880, provides that where a debt is due from any person to the defendant, in any civil action,…
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