M. G. Ogle Co-Operative House Furnishing Co. v. Shauman

This action was begun before a justice of the peace in a suit by appellant to recover wages of a workman for appellee, an assignment of which wages appellant claimed under a power of attorney given by the workman before he engaged in the employment. On appeal to the Circuit Court defendant had judgment. Plaintiff appeals. The real question in the case is, can the workman execute a valid power of attorney which will authorize his attorney in fact to assign wages earned in an employment in which the workman is not then engaged and has no contract for at the time of the execution of the power of…