GA Code § 9-11-22 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 9 - Civil Practice|Chapter 11 - Civil Practice Act|Article 4 - Parties|§ 9-11-22. Interpleader

  Persons having claims against the plaintiff may be joined as defendants and required to interplead when their claims are such that the plaintiff is or may be exposed to double or multiple liability. It is not ground for objection to the joinder that the claims of the several claimants or the titles on which their claims depend do not have a common origin or are not identical but are adverse to and independent of one another or that the plaintiff avers that he is not liable in whole or in part to any or all of the claimants. A defendant exposed to similar liability may obtain such interpleader by way of cross-claim or counterclaim. This Code section supplements and does not in any way limit the joinder of parties permitted in Code Section 9-11-20.   The remedy provided in this Code section is in addition to and in no way supersedes or limits the remedy of equitable interpleader provided for in Code Sections 23-3-90 through 23-3-92.    (Ga. L. 1966, p. 609, § 22; Ga. L. 1967, p. 226, § 11.)   Cross references.   - Form of complaint for interpleader, § 9-11-118.    Form of counterclaim by defendant for interpleader, § 9-11-121.    Procedure upon conflicting claims to goods in possession of bailee which are covered by document of title, § 11-7-603.    Equitable interpleader, § 23-3-90 et seq.   U.S. Code.   - For provisions of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 22, see 28 U.S.C.   Law reviews.   - For survey article on trial practice and procedure, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 299 (1982).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   ANALYSIS    General Consideration   Merit of Claims    RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 44B Am. Jur. 2d, Interpleader, §§ 1, 2, 4, 5.   C.J.S.   - 35A C.J.S., Federal Civil Procedure, §§ 127, 367. 48 C.J.S., Interpleader, §§ 6, 17. 67A C.J.S., Parties, §§ 63, 64.   ALR.    - Right of judgment debtor to interplead, 48 A.L.R. 966.    Right of escrow holder to interplead conflicting claimants, 60 A.L.R. 638.    Right of bank to interplead rival claimants to deposit, 60 A.L.R. 719.    Right of owner to maintain bill of interpleader against contractor and lien claimants and others in respect of fund arising from construction contracts, 70 A.L.R. 515.    Interpleader where one claimant asserts an adverse and paramount title, 97 A.L.R. 996.    Warehouseman's right to interplead rival claimants to goods stored or their proceeds, 100 A.L.R. 425.    When insurance company deemed to be a disinterested stakeholder for purposes of bill of interpleader, 108 A.L.R. 267.    Right to interpleader by obligor in bond or other contract the obligation or benefit of which extends to a class, 108 A.L.R. 1250.    Danger of being subjected to double liability in respect of the same obligation as ground for abatement of, or injunction against, action by one claimant pending an action, otherwise in personam, by a rival claimant, 115 A.L.R. 346.    Bill of interpleader as affected by fact that same person, in different capacities, is both stakeholder and one of the rival claimants, 144 A.L.R. 1174.    Right of trustee, executor, or administrator to maintain interpleader, 152 A.L.R. 1122.    Insurance: facility of payment clause, 166 A.L.R. 10.   Appealability of order with respect to motion for joinder of additional parties, 16 A.L.R.2d 1023.   Corporation's right to interplead claimants to dividends, 46 A.L.R.2d 980.   Allowance of attorneys' fees to party interpleading claimants to funds or property, 48 A.L.R.2d 190.   Intervenor's right to disqualify judge, 92 A.L.R.2d 1110.   Stakeholder's liability for loss of interpleaded funds after they leave stakeholder's control, 7 A.L.R.5th 976.