Thompson v. Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that garnishee may pay funds into court and interplead other necessary parties in order to protect itself against double liability
• jurisdiction of court issuing first writ of garnishment “extended to a determination of the title to or ownership of funds held by the garnishee if title or ownership were doubtful or in dispute”
• “[T]he garnishee may pay the funds into the court and by interpleader bring into the suit all other claimants thereto in order to protect itself against double liability.”
• ―[T]he garnishee may pay the funds into the court 5 and by interpleader bring into the suit all other claimants thereto in order to protect itself against double liability.‖
• “the scope of the inquiry in a writ of garnishment is broad enough to impound funds of the debtor, held by the garnishee, even though title thereto stands nominally in a third party”
• addressing disputed proceeds of fire-insurance policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).