Bell Finance Co. v. Johnson

Johnson made a partial assignment of his wages to the plaintiff, Bell Finance Company, without obtaining the assent of his employer to such assignment. Thereafter the employer paid to Johnson the wages which he had assigned to the plaintiff. Plaintiff brought suit in the municipal court of Augusta against Johnson for the amount of the wages assigned to it by Johnson, claiming *351that the title to the wages assigned was in it, and that the defendant had wrongfully converted the same to his own use. The defendant filed his plea and answer denying that the title to such wages was in the plaintiff…