Tillie M. Pouch, Appellant v. the Prudential Insurance Company of America, Respondent

Summary

The Court held that the trial court lacked authority to grant an interpleader under §820 of the Code of Civil Procedure because the record did not contain the requisite factual allegations of conflicting claims with a reasonable basis. Accordingly, the motion to interplead was denied and the lower court orders were reversed. Justice Haight, dissenting, argued that the statutory construction should be followed and that the legislature had expressly relaxed the requirements, so the interpleader should have been allowed.