Carstens v. Gustin
Carstens v. Gustin
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The appellants commenced, an action, denominating their complaint an interpleader. It states in substance that Thomas and Ernest Carstens were a partnership known as Carstens Brothers and that the defendants Skavdale and Thomas L. and M. L. J ose were in partnership under the firm name of Saginaw Logging Company, and that defendant Moyer was sheriff of King county; that the defendants Gustin and wife and Tibbetts were partners under the firm name of Gustin & Tibbetts; that prior to June 18, 1896, Gustin & Tibbetts recovered judgment in the superior court against Thomas L. Jose, which was duly entered of record as unpaid in said court; that plaintiffs, Carstens Brothers, entered into a
The plaintiffs Oarstens Brothers are in no other or different position than they were when they .claimed the boom of logs as against the- levy of the sheriff. They made their claim under their contract with the Saginaw Logging Company as the owners of the logs. A trial was had, and it was-determined that they were not the owners of the logs, but that such logs were subject to- the execution of Gustin & Tibbetts against Thomas Jose. The money which Oarstens Brothers have in their hands merely stands in place of the logs, and, as between them and Gustin & Tibbetts, the judgment of the court was they should pay the $1,200. The unadjusted matters as between the Saginaw Logging-Company and Oarstens Brothers cannot concern Gustin & Tibbetts, who were adjudged to- be entitled to the- proceeds from the boom of logs, viz., the $1,200. There does not
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- Thomas Carstens v. S. D. Gustin
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- INTERPLEADER — WHEN LIES. A complaint of interpleader does not state a cause of action, though alleging that plaintiffs hold a sum of money claimed by different parties, whose rights they desire adjudicated, when it further appears from the complaint that 'the money is the proceeds from the sale of a boom of logs, which had been levied upon by a judgment creditor of one of the parties in a logging firm, that the plaintiffs had set up a claim of ownership under a contract with the firm and given ’a bond for possession of the logs, and that, upon a trial of their claim, the judgment creditor had been given judgment against plaintiffs on their forthcoming bond for the value of the logs.