Patterson v. Moore

The plaintiff brought an equitable action against the defendants, alleging in substance: The defendants are money lenders, and claim that the plaintiff is in debt to them in the sum of $18, to secure which they required the plaintiff, on April 15, 1915, to sign in blank, in defendants’ favor, what purported to be an assignment of his wages. At'that time the plaintiff was working on a monthly salary, payable on the fifteenth day of the month, and at the time plaintiff executed to defendants an assignment of his wages there was due to him a half month’s salary. The defendants knew this, and…