65-10-110 - Payment into court by principal contractor. - Tennessee Statutes

65-10-110. Payment into court by principal contractor.

The principal contractor may, upon receiving the notice provided for in § 65-10-105, be relieved, if sued, by paying the sum claimed into court, which payment into court shall discharge the principal contractor from liability to the subcontractor for the amount so paid into court; and thereupon the subcontractor shall be summoned to answer the demand of the claimant, and such judgment shall be rendered thereon as the right may appear.

[Acts 1883, ch. 220, § 4; Shan., § 3579; Code 1932, § 8001; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 65-1010.]