Attoyac River Lumber Company v. Payne

PLEASANTS, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee against appellant to recover the sum of $738.65, the aggregate amount of certain time checks issued by the appellant to various of its employes and claimed to be owned by appellee.

In addition to general and special exceptions and general denial, the defendant’s answer contains the following special pleas:

“Further answering herein, defendant denies that it ever at any time issued any time checks which were given for labor performed by its employes to be redeemed in cash or payable to any one, except in this, that defendant has…