Case Name: TIMES HERALD PRINTING CO. v. ST. PAUL SANITARIUM et al.
Court: Texas Courts of Civil Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1915-04-22
Citations: 175 S.W. 1121
Docket Number: No. 1469
Parties: TIMES HERALD PRINTING CO. v. ST. PAUL SANITARIUM et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 175
Pages: 1121–1121

Head Matter:
TIMES HERALD PRINTING CO. v. ST. PAUL SANITARIUM et al.
(No. 1469.)
(Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Texarkana.
April 22, 1915.)
Interpleader <&wkey;23 — Bill—Sufficiency.
A petition setting up that plaintiff had in its possession a fund as prizes, in which it claimed no interest, which belonged to two of the defendants, and which was adversely claimed by the three, is a good bill of interpleader.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Interpleader, Cent. Dig. §§ 47, 51; Dec. Dig. <S&wkey;23.]
Appeal from District Court, Dallas County; Kenneth Foree, Judge.
Petition of interpleader by the Times Herald Printing Company against the St. Paul Sanitarium and others. Prom a judgment sustaining a demurrer, plaintiff appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Wood & Wood, of Dallas, for appellant. Wm. P. Ellison, Pierson & Pierson, Etheridge, McCormick & Bromberg, W. A. Kemp, Thomas & Rhea, Ellis P. House and Lawther, Pope & Mays, all of Dallas, for appellees.

Opinion:
LEVY, J.
Appellant prosecutes the appeal from the judgment sustaining a demurrer to the petition. The petition is in the nature of an interpleader, and states, in substance, that plaintiff has in its possession a fund of $1,200 as prizes, which it tenders into court, and to which it claims no interest, and which belongs to two of the defendants, and which is adversely claimed by the three defendants, and that appellant is willing to pay the fund to whomsoever the court may- adjudge is entitled to it. Without stating or discussing the question further, it is concluded that, as against a demurrer, the bill of interpleader is sufficient as such. 5 Pomeroy, 'Eq. Jur. § 43 et seq.; Bolin v. Railway Co., 61 S. W. 444; Rochelle v. Express Co., 56 Tex. Civ. App. 142, 120 S. W. 543. Any question of the regularity of the canvass' of the votes for the prizes, or validity or finality of the award, and the like, are matters that are properly determinable on the answers of the defendants as between themselves.
The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
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