Collier v. Murphy
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM MADISON. Appeal ill error from Circuit Court of Madison County. Levi S. Woods, J.
1Opinion of the Court
LüRTON, J.
Plaintiff in error brought suit for wages due him as a laborer, the amount claimed being less than thirty dollars. Defendant, after this debt was created, but before suit, took an assignment of a judgment in favor of íí. P. McOhesney, and against the plaintiff, Collier, and relied upon same as a set-off’ under § 3628, Code (M. & V.). Plaintiff insisted that, under the Act of 1871 (inserted as § 3931, Code of M. & V.), the wages due him were exempt from execution, attachment, or garnishment, and that his debt was not therefore subject to be set off by a claim in no way springing out…
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