Oklahoma § 12-2022

§ 12-2022.

Interpleader.

INTERPLEADER

A. Persons having claims against the plaintiff may be joined as

defendants and required to interplead when their claims are such

that the plaintiff is or may be exposed to double or multiple

liability. It is not ground for objection to the joinder that the

claims of the several claimants or the titles on which their claims

depend do not have a common origin or are not identical but are

adverse to and independent of one another, or that the plaintiff

avers that he is not liable in whole or in part to any or all of the

claimants. A defendant exposed to similar liability may obtain such

interpleader by way of cross-claim or counterclaim. The provisions

of this section supplement and do not in any way limit the joinder

of parties permitted in Section 20 of this act.

B. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to

actions brought against a sheriff or other officer for the recovery

of personal property taken by him under execution or for the

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proceeds of such property so taken and sold by him; and the

defendant in any such action shall be entitled to the benefit of

this section against the party in whose favor the execution issued.

C. The court may make an order for the safekeeping of the

subject of the action or for its payment or delivery into the court

or to such person as the court may direct, and the court may order

the person who is seeking relief by way of interpleader to give a

bond, payable to the clerk of the court, in such amount and with

such surety as the court or judge may deem proper, conditioned upon

the compliance with the future order or judgment of the court with

respect to the subject matter of the controversy. Where the party

seeking relief by way of interpleader claims no interest in the

subject of the action and the subject of the action has been

deposited with the court or with a person designated by the court,

the court should discharge him from the action and from liability as

to the claims of the other parties to the action with costs and, in

the discretion of the court, a reasonable attorney fee.

D. In cases of interpleader, costs may be adjudged for or

against any party, except as provided in subsection C of this

section.

Added by Laws 1984, c. 164, § 22, eff. Nov. 1, 1984.