Payne v. Cohen

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

The respondent is a young, unmarried man, serving an apprenticeship at the machine shops of the Southern Railway Company near Spartanburg.

The appellant S. G. Cohen was at the time of the occurrences complained of manager of the Rewis Stores in the City of Spartanburg. A person, representing himself to be H. Roy Payne, and signing that name, in 1927 bought of Lewis Stores an overcoat, made a cash payment, and assigned of his wages as an employee of the Southern Railway Company a sum sufficient to protect the credit portion. This debt…