D. H. Holmes Co. v. Kron

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment dissolving a seizure of defendant’s wages under garnishment process. The lower court held that defendant was a laborer and his earnings exempt from seizure under article 644, Code Prac., as amended by Act No. 79 of 1876 and Act No. 184 of 1918.

Defendant is employed by the United Shoe Machinery Company at a weekly salary of $19. His duties, as stated by himself, consist of keeping 'the warehouse “where we work at clean” and opening “boxes of stuff that comes in and I stack it upon the shelf.” He also testified that he helped the shipping clerk and, when he is…