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      "Mid-West Collection Bureau, Appellant, v. A. G. Dietrich (Yellow Cab Company, Garnishee), Appellee."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis appeal is from an order discharging a garnishee upon the ground set up in the latter\u2019s answer that the judgment debtor is entitled to legal exemptions as a wage earner. Whether the judgment debtor was a wage earner under the Garnishment Act was the only question at issue. He was employed by the garnishee as a bookkeeper, performing no physical or manual labor except to carry to and from the office vault the particular books he worked upon as bookkeeper. The sum of $35 was due from the garnishee for his services at the time of its answer.\nOn these undisputed facts appellant requested the court to hold as a proposition of law that the amount so due was not due as wages for services as a wage earner within the meaning of section 14 of the Garnishment Act (Cahill\u2019s Ill. St. ch. 62, \u00b6 14). The court refused so to hold and discharged the garnishee. This was error, not only because $15 was all that was claimed as exemptions but because the court evidently disregarded the law correctly set forth in said proposition.\nSection 14 of the Garnishment Act reads :\n\u201cThe wages for services of a wage earner who is the head of a family and residing with the same to the amount of $15 per week shall be exempt from garnishment. \u2019 \u2019\nDefining the word \u201cwages\u201d as employed in another act, the court in Massie v. Cessna, 239 Ill. 352, said:\n\u201c \u2018Wages\u2019 is usually restricted to sums paid as hire or reward to domestic or menial servants and to sums paid to artisans, mechanics, laborers and others employed in various manual occupations, while \u2018salary\u2019 has reference to the compensation of clerks, bookkeepers and other employees of a like class, officers of corporations and public officers. \u2019 \u2019\nIn defining the term \u201cwages\u201d as used in other statutes, a similar distinction has been observed in other eases with reference to compensation of a bookkeeper. (In re Stryker, 158 N. Y. 526; Epps v. Epps, 17 Ill. App. 196; Dickinson v. Rahn, 98 Ill. App. 245.)\nThe judgment will be reversed and a judgment entered here on undisputed facts for the amount of $35, the sum admitted to be due from the garnishee, with costs here and below.\nReversed and judgment here for $35.\nG-ridley, P. J., and Morrill, J., concur.",
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    "head_matter": "Mid-West Collection Bureau, Appellant, v. A. G. Dietrich (Yellow Cab Company, Garnishee), Appellee.\nGen. No. 26,184.\n1. Garnishment\u2014-ro7\u00a1.e\u00ab. discharge of garnishee on ground of debtor\u2019s exemption improper. Where it appeared that a judgment \u25a0 debtor was a bookkeeper and that the sum of $35 was due \"to him for services at the time an answer in garnishment proceedings was made, a discharge of the garnishee on the ground that the debtor was entitled to exemption as a wage earner was.erroneous.\n2. Garnishment\u2014when bookkeeper\u2019s salary not exempt as wages. Money paid for the services of a bookkeeper is not wages within the meaning of section 14 of the Garnishment Act (Cahill\u2019s Ill. St. ch. 62, \u00b6 14.)\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. W. N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1920.\nReversed and judgment here for $35.\nOpinion filed October 4, 1921.\nClarence A. Samuel, for appellant.\nNo appearance for appellee."
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