Steel v. McKerrihan

Citations

• 172 Pa. 280
• 33 A. 570
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 771

Syllabus

<p>Wages — Attachment execution — Act of May 23, 1887.</p> <p>A creditor sent a claim against his debtor to West Virginia and made the collection out of the wages of labor due the latter from a railroad company. The debtor brought suit against the creditor in Pennsylvania, and under the act of May 23,1887, P. L. 161, recovered a judgment against the creditor for the amount of the wages collected in West Virginia. The creditor then transferred to his wife a judgment note which he held against the debtor. The creditor’s wife entered judgment on the note in this state, and issued an attachment execution for the purpose of appropriating the judgment which was recovered against her husband. Held, that the protection afforded to the laborer by the act could not be taken from him in this manner, and that the attachment should be quashed.</p>