Geoffrey C. Hazard

Insanity as a Defense: The Bifurcated Trial

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An Historical and Critical Analysis of Interpleader

The equitable remedy of interpleader .. . depends upon and requires the existence of the four following elements, which may be regarded as its essential conditions: 1. The same thing, debt, or duty must be claimed by both or all the parties against whom the relief is demanded. 2. All their adverse titles or claims must be dependent, or be derived from the same source. 3. The person asking the relief-the plaintiff-must not have nor claim any interest in the subject-matter. 4. He must have incurred no independent liability to either of the claimants; that is, he must stand perfectly indifferent between them, in the position merely of a stakeholder.