Howell v. Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills

Jenkins, Justice.

Howell and numerous other former employees sued Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills and two of its officers, for an accounting and recovery of their alleged respective shares of a benefit fund for sick employees, into which the employees of the mills had paid twenty-five cents a month from their salaries, which had been maintained by the mills corporation for more than twenty-five years before the passage of the social-security act in 1937, but which was then discontinued and distributed among existing employees. The defendants filed demurrers on numerous general and special grounds.…