Briscoe v. Montgomery & Co.

Lumpkin, Justice.

It was held in Claghorn & Cunningham v. Saussy, 51 Ga. 576, that the monthly wages of a “forwarding clerk ” in the employment of a railroad company were not subject to the process of garnishment. An examination of the evidence in that ease will show that the services of this clerk in the performance of his duties were such as to require at his hands, if not actual manual labor in the common acceptation of the term, certainly labor somewhat of that character.

In Hightower & Co. v. Slaton et al., 54 Ga. 108, it was held that the monthly salary of a teacher emplojred in a public…