{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:318","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Defendant Suing Plaintiff","number":"318","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/318/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V — SPECIAL PROCEDURE AND PROVISIONAL OR INTERLOCUTORY MEASURES","title":"TITLE II — SPECIAL PROCEDURES","chapter":"Chapter 1. — Interpleader"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where any of the defendants in an interpleader-suit is actually suing the plaintiff in respect of the subject matter of such suit, the court in which the suit against the plaintiff is pending shall, on being informed by the court in which the interpleader-suit has been instituted, stay the proceedings as against him; and his costs in the suit so stayed may be provided for in such suit; but if, and in so far as, they are not provided for in that suit, they may be added to his costs incurred in the interpleader-suit.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/318/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":170,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/170/?article=318&paragraph=lead#article-318-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}