Stake

A deposit made to answer an event, as on a wager. See Harris v. White, 81 N. Y. 539; Porter v. Day, 71 Wis. 296, 37 N. W. 259; Mohr v. Miesen, 47 Minn. 228, 49 N. W. 862.

— Stakeholder primarily. a person with whom money is deposited pending the decision of a bat or wager, (q. v.,) but it is more often used to mean a person who holds money or property which is claimed by rival claimants, but in which he himself claims no interest Sweet. And see Oriental Bank v. Tremont Ins. Co.., 4 Mete. (Mass.) 10; Fisher v. Hildreth, 117 Mass. 562; Wabash R. Co. v. Flannigan, 95 Mo. App. 477, 75 S. W. 69L