1 Ga. App. 240 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1907
A. B. Dover brought suit against the Central of Georgia Railway Company in the justice’s court of the 716th district, G. M., upon the following assignment:
“Macon, Ga., June 8th, 1905. I, Rogers Johnson, being now-in the- employ of the Central of Georgia Ry. Co. under an existing contract of employment, do hereby transfer and assign, release, set over, and sell to A. B. Dover, the sum of twenty dollars out of whatever money may now be due, or may become due me by
The justice rendered a judgment against- the defendant for the sum of $9.04, the amount, as shown by -the evidence, which the defendant owed to the assignor, Eogers Johnson, at the daté of the filing of the suit. From this judgment the defendant appealed to a jury in the justice’s court, which, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict against the defendant • for the sum of $5.44, being the amount of money which had been earned by the assignor, Eogers Johnson, and which the railway company had in its possession at the date of the assignment. To this verdict and the judgment based thereon, the railway company filed its petition for a writ of certiorari in the superior court of Bibb county. On hearing the certiorari, the court overruled and denied the same; and that judgment is assigned as error. To clearly understand the questions of law made in the ease, a brief statement of the evidence is necessary. The execution of the assignment was admitted; and it was also admitted that at the date of the assignment the assignee, the railway company, owed the assignor, Eogers Johnson, the sum of $5.44, for money which he had earned up to that date on account of his wages; that at the date of the filing of the suit in the justice’s court, the railway company owed the assignor, Johnson, the sum of $9.04, on account of wages earned up to that date. This amount was due and payable to him on the 18th day of July, 1905, and, under the rules and regulations of the railway company, there was no way that he could get his money before July 18th, 1905, except he had been discharged or had left its service, the 18th of each month being, under the rules of the railway company, the pay day of the wages due employees for the preceding month. The assignor, at the time of the assignment, was a fireman of the defendant company, under an existing contract. It may be also stated that the verdict and judgment for $5.44, in the justice’s court, was in accordance with the statement made by the plaintiff that this was all that he claimed under the assignment; in other words, that
For the reasons above stated, we think that the court erred in its judgment overruling and denying the certiorari.
Judgment reversed. Powell, J., disqualified.