White v. Raleigh Wyoming Mining Co.

Hatct-ieR, Judge:

This action was brought by the assignee of scrip stamped “Not transferable”, to recover of the obligor in money. The scrip was issued in 1930 tinder Acts 1927, chapter 37, by an employer to his employees, in payment for labor performed. The circuit court sustained a demurrer to the declaration.

The Act of 1927 provided that non-transferable scrip should be issued “upon request of any employee”; that it should be “redeemable in merchandise only by the employee to whom issued”; and should be taken as a promise by the obligor to pay “to the employee to whom issued, in lawful…