1. A plea by which a person sued in respect to property disclaims any interest in it and demands that rival claimants shall litigate their titles between themselves and relieve him from responsibility. Bennett v. Wolverton, 24 Kan. ,286. See INTERPLEADER.
2. In Missouri, a statutory proceeding serving as a substitute for the action of replevin, by which a third person intervenes in an action of attachment sets up his own. title to the specific property attached, and. seeks to recover the possession of it See, Rice v. Sally, 176 Mo. 107, 75 S. W. 398 Spooner v. Ross, 24 Mo. App. 603; State v. Barker, 26 Mo. App. 491; Brownwell, etc,. Car. Co. v. Barnard, 139 Mo. 142, 40 S. W. 762. .