Danziger v. Ferber

Citations

• 272 Pa. 193
• 116 A. 516
• 1922 Pa. LEXIS 798

Syllabus

<p>Master and servant — Wages — Attachment — Act <of April 15, 181f5, P. L. M>9 — Salary—Accumulations—Bonus.</p> <p>1. The protection afforded by the Act of April 18, 1845, P. L. 460, is not lost because wages were not paid by an employer when due, but were permitted to accumulate in his hands.</p> <p>2. Wages which are prevented from being paid over to an employee, by reason of service of an attachment, are exempt.</p> <p>8. Where an employee was to receive a bonus in addition to wages, conditioned upon his being alive at the time of the termination of the current term of the agreement of employment, such bonus could not be attached until the term was ended, even if otherwise attachable.</p> <p>4. The terms wages and salary, exempt from attachment, include all money paid for personal services, whether in the form of regular payments or in the form of bonus or commissions, where there is no element of direct profit on the labor of others.</p>