Palmore v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

In this case the appellant, Roy B. Palmore, engaged in the business of purchasing from employees of corporations all, or a portion, of their earned salaries, on February 1st, 1928, bought of the appellee Paul L. Bayer, an employee of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, the other appellee, a portion of his wages earned in January, 1928, amounting to twenty-five dolía rs, and paid him therefor the sum of twenty-three dollars. On February 25th, thereafter, he entered into a similar transaction with the appellee Bayer for the same amount of money. The railroad company was notified of the…