Bowen v. Morris

Appeal from decree dissolving a temporary injunction for want of equity in the bill.

The bill of complaint, to state its essence, makes the following case:

Complainant is now, and hds for 16 years been, employed as a trainman of Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company-; for the past 11 years has been a locomotive fireman, earning fairly lucrative wages. Complainant and family are dependent on such wages for a livelihood.

A rigid custom of the employer is to discharge an employg whose wages are garnished for the third time. Two garnishments have been run, and a third would result in his discharge.