Brown v. Long
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Morgan Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Wert. Assumpsit by J. T. Brown against S. T. Long and another. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Transferred from the Court of Appeals under the act creating said court.
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, J.(1) On November 25, 1912, one Davis, who was then a day laborer in the service of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, made a written assignment of his then earned wages, and those to be earned in the future, to Long & Abel. The consideration stated for the assignment was “value received.” The assignment of unearned wages, outside of the excepted enumeration made in section 2 of the act approved April 11, 1911 (Acts 1911, p. 370), was ineffectual and void under the provisions of that act. —Speilberger v. Brandes, 3 Ala. App. 590, 58 South. 75. On February 5, 1913, Long &…
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- Speilberger Bros. v. BrandesAlabama Court of Appeals · 1912
- Bank of Mobile v. Mobile & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881
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