Bolton v. Pennsylvania Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer county: Of October and November Term'1878, No. 161. This was an appeal by the Pennsylvania Company, operating the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad, from a judgment of a justice of the peace, in favor of John Bolton. John Bolton, the plaintiff below, was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Company in September 1876, as brakeman. There was due him, for services or wages as brakeman, the sum of $4fi for the month of September.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer county: Of October and November Term'1878, No. 161. This was an appeal by the Pennsylvania Company, operating the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad, from a judgment of a justice of the peace, in favor of John Bolton. John Bolton, the plaintiff below, was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Company in September 1876, as brakeman. There was due him, for services or wages as brakeman, the sum of $4fi for the month of September. Prior to pay-day the wages due Bolton were attached at the suit of I). Patton v. John Bolton, in Ashtabula county, Ohi.o, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Siiarswood
The main question in this case was solemnly decided by this court in Morgan v. Neville, 24 P. F. Smith 52, that wages of labor earned and due to a citizen of this state may be attached for a debt in another state where no law exists prohibiting the attachment of'wages of labor. We are now asked by the counsel of the defendant in error to review and overrule that case. We see no reason for doing so. The non-attachability of wages of labor for debt no more enters into the contract than does the exemption from execution of certain articles or a certain amount. The laws for process of attachment…
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