Chicago & Alton Railway Co. v. Moore

This is a suit by appellee, B. Frank Moore, against the defendant railway company for wages as an employee of defendant. A trial was had by the court without a jury and judgment entered for the amount of the plaintiff’s claims, $33.30, and $25 attorney’s fees.

The only defense set up was a certain garnishment proceeding wherein judgment was rendered by a justice of the peace against appellant as garnishee of plaintiff for the sum of $26.80, including costs. Whether appellant is entitled to have a credit on its indebtedness to appellee to that amount is substantially the only question in the…