Poore v. Bowlin

Mr. Chiep, Justice Green

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Ben Bowlin, the husband of defendant Etta Bowlin, was killed in a coal mine. After his death compensation was awarded to his widow under the workmen’s compensation statute, chapter 123 of the Acts of 1919. The bill herein was filed by a creditor of the widow seeking to reach, in the hands of her husband’s employer, payments coming to her under the statute, and to subject such funds to the discharge of her indebtedness to complainant. It was alleged that she was a nonresident of the State and an attachment issued and was levied. The *414cha…