Boyle v. Vanderhoof
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiffs brought this action in the municipal court of St. Paul against the defendant Vanderhoof and the North American Telegraph Co. as garnishee.
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Plaintiffs brought this action in the municipal court of St. Paul against the defendant Vanderhoof and the North American Telegraph Co. as garnishee. The disclosure showed that defendant was employed by the garnishee as a telegraph operator and that at the date of the service of the garnishee summons, (January 30, 1890,) there was due him from the garnishee, as wages for services rendered as such operator for 30 days next preceding the issue of the garnishee summons, the sum of $34.44, of which sum the defendant claimed $25 as exempt. The claim was disallowed, judgment was entered against the…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
Under the title of "Exemptions” in Gen. St. 1878, e. 66, § 310, subd. 11, it is provided that the wages of any laboring man or his minor children, for services rendered by him or them for a period therein designated next preceding the issue of process of garnishment, should be exempt. Another act was passed in Í887, (chapter 179,) entitled “An act to abolish the process of garnishments as applied to working men,” in which it is provided that the wages of a laboring man or woman, earned by the actual work of his or her hands, should not be subject to garnishment. And in 1889, the legislature…
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- Mississippi & Rum River Boom Co. v. PrinceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1885
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