46 A. 42 | R.I. | 1900
The complainant holds two trunks, with their contents, which formerly belonged to his testatrix. They are claimed by two of the defendants respectively as gifts from the testatrix, and he alleges that they are also claimed by the residuary legatee, whom he also makes defendant to this bill. It is evident that the relations subsisting between these parties are not those which justify a bill of interpleader. A suit at law by one of the alleged donees against the executor would conclude not only the executor, but the residuary legatee as well; and no suit for these specific chattels would lie in favor of the residuary legatee against the executor. The only case cited upon this point, Stevens, Admr., v. Warren,