GLENS FALLS INSURANCE CO. v. STROM

Nos. 2300-SD, 2322-SD.

198 F.Supp. 450 (1961)

GLENS FALLS INSURANCE CO., Plaintiff, v. Arne STROM et al., Defendants. Alexander McArthur HOLMAN, etc., Plaintiffs, v. Arne STROM et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. California, S. D.

September 27, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, San Diego, Cal., for Glens Falls Ins. Co.

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, San Diego, Cal., for intervenors Harbor Boat & Yacht Co.

Ball, Hunt & Hart, Long Beach, Cal., for intervenors Van Camp Sea Food and National Packing Co.

Freston & Files and Eugene D. Williams, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenors, Thomas C. Tilley, trustee in bankruptcy for Royal Pacific, a Corp., bankrupt.

Weber, Schwartz & Alschuler, Beverly Hills, Cal., for Holman and others, underwriters at Lloyd's.


JAMES M. CARTER, District Judge.

These cases are interpleader actions, and the question presented is whether a bankruptcy court in Puerto Rico has exclusive summary jurisdiction, or whether this Court in interpleader actions, has jurisdiction to determine the rights of the parties to the proceeds of the two insurance policies, now paid into the registry of this Court.

Royal Pacific Corporation (hereafter called Royal), was adjudged bankrupt on February 19...

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