Atlanta Finance Co. v. Southern Railway Co.

The Atlanta Finance Company brought suit against the Southern Railway Company upon a contract whereby one Clark purported to have assigned on June 30, 1913, an account for salary or wages already earned by him during the month of June, and due to him by the Southern Railway Company.’ The defendant relied upon the invalidity of the contract of assignment, as its defense, and in its plea asserted that the real contract was in fact an assignment on April 23, 1913, of wages which at that time had not been earned. It was further alleged by the defendant that the wages sought to be assigned were…