85 Ga. 124 | Ga. | 1890
By the statute law of this State “all journeymen mechanics and day-laborers shall be exempt from the process and liabilities of garnishment on their daily, weekly or monthly wages, whether in the hands of their employers or others.” Code, §8554. We are not informed by anything directly alleged in the plaintiff’s declaration whether or not any similar law prevails in the State of Tennessee. The fair inference from what is alleged would be that there is no like exemption in that State, or at least, none of which non-resident debtors could avail themselves. It appears that the defendants, who were creditors of the plaintiff, for the purpose of resorting to a Tennessee forum and to evade this provision in the laws of tíeorgia, transferred their account to their attorney and caused attachment to issue in Tennessee and a garnishment to be served on the Western and Atlantic Railroad Company, who was
There was no error in sustaining the demurrer to the declaration.' • Judgment affirmed.