Alabama Brokerage Co. v. Boston

- The appellee brought suit against the appellant to recover damages for certain injuries alleged to have been caused by appellant. ,

The theory of his action is that the appellant was a money broker in Jefferson county, Ala.; that appellee was employed by a railroad in that county, and,borrowed some money from the appellant, and to secure that loan gave the appellant an assignment on his wages to be earned in the future from the railroad company; that this assignment was void under the act of 1911 regulating assignments (Acts 1911, p. 370), .and under the Money Lenders Act of 1901 (Acts 1901,…