Taylor

By a series of procedural steps this action to quiet title to thirteen parcels of real estate and twelve scattered bank accounts has developed, as to one bank account, into an action of interpleader in which the plaintiff and the State of California appear as rival claimants. Of the twenty-five items covered by the amended complaint the one in which we are interested is described as “A bank account in the First Trust and Saving Bank of Pasadena, California, including money deposited and interest and the proceeds therefrom, standing in the name of Pasadena Land & Wtr. Co.” The Pasadena Land & Water Company was named as a defendant, served, its default entered June 5, 1942, and a partial decree entered on July 10, 1942, quieting the plaintiff’s title to the bank account as against the water company. The bank in which the account existed (actually there were two accounts) was not made a party to the action. Nevertheless an order was issued, July 30, 1942, which, by its terms, ordered the bank to appear and show cause why it should not pay the money in the water company’s accounts to the plaintiff. The bank resisted the move to require it to pay the amount of the accounts to the…