Gonzalez Ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Texas Employers Insurance Ass'n

GUITTARD, Justice.

Our questions are (1) whether an inter-pleading stakeholder, who admits liability and offers to pay money into court but does not actually do so, is protected against further liability by payment of the money to one of the claimants under a judgment which has since been reversed, and (2) whether a recognized illegitimate child is entitled to the death benefits provided for a child of a deceased employee under the Workmen’s Compensation Act by virtue of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth ' Amendment. We hold that the stakeholder’s liability is not discharged by…