John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Virginia Beardslee

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he conflict- ing claims against the funds need not be such claims as can finally be proved in court.”
• claim of wife and tort claim of daughter to policy proceeds did not justify interpleader action where wife is the named beneficiary and any claim of the daughter against the proceeds “could not have changed the contract embodied in the policy of insurance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).