Newsum v. Interstate Realty Co.

Complainants, owning certain valuable real estate, placed it for sale with more than one agency. The two defendants both claiming commissions on the sale, this bill was filed as a bill of interpleader, or in the nature of ■ a-bill of interpleader, and, in the alternative, as a proceeding under the Declaratory Judgments Act of 1923, •chapter 29.

•. It is an essential of 'an interpleader bill, or of a bill of ■this nature, that the complainant be liable to one only of the parties defendant, never by any possibility to both. The amonnt or value of the obligation must not be in dispute, but the…