Morris v. Holshouser

The plaintiff’s appeal presents the question of the constitutionality of chapter 410, Public Laws 1935, as amended, which we quote as follows:

“No employer of labor shall be responsible for any assignment of wages to be earned in the future, executed by an employee, unless and until such assignment of wages is accepted by the employer in a written agreement to pay same.”

The right of an assignee to sue in his own name upon an assignment of wages already earned by the employee and due by the employer was upheld in Rickman v. Holshouser, 217 N. C., 377, 8 S. E. (2d), 199. In that case the…