Galbraith v. Rutter

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 554
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 276

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Jurisdiction—Remedy at law — Wages—Assignment of claim against wage earner — Nonresident.</p> <p>A wage earner has no standing to maintain a bill in equity for an injunction to restrain his employer from appropriating his wages to pay a claim against him which had been assigned to a nonresident for the purpose of attaching the wages in a foreign jurisdiction. Tn such a case the wage earner’s remedy is by an action at law in Pennsylvania against his employer for the wages. The wage earner, however, is entitled to an injunction to restrain his creditor who had assigned the claim to a nonresident, from further prosecuting the litigation in the foreign jurisdiction. His remedy under the Act of May 23, 1887, P. L. 164, is not exclusive of the remedy in equity.</p>