TRAVELERS INS. CO. v. FIRST NAT. BANK, ETC.

No. 80-3508.

675 F.2d 633 (1982)

The TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO., Plaintiff, v. The FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SHREVEPORT, Defendant-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. Arnold KILPATRICK and Harper Terrill, as co-executors of the estate of Mrs. Katherine Kilpatrick, Defendants-Appellants Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. G. Brunson, William H. Baker, Jonesboro, La., Frederic C. Amman, III, William D. Brown, Monroe, La., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

Fred H. Sutherland, H. F. Sockrider, Jr., Shreveport, La., for defendant-appellee, cross-appellant.

Before BROWN, COLEMAN and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

What began simply enough as a diversity-based Rule 22 interpleader to determine the ownership of the proceeds of a single life insurance policy, eventually burgeoned into a luxuriant complex of disputes between nondiverse claimants to the fund involving more than twenty life insurance policies, a power of attorney, and a will. Applying the standards for ancillary jurisdiction enunciated by the Supreme Court in Owen Equipment and Erection...

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