Case ID: ga-app_29/html/0098-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Stephens, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

12715.
    Wilkes v. Pound.
    Decided September 26, 1922.
   Stephens, J.

1. A father who has not parted with the parental control of his minor child is entitled to the proceeds of the labor of the child, and a contract by such minor, made with a third person without the knowledge or consent of the father, to pay to the third person a part of the wages accruing under his contract of employment, is void and unenforceable.

2. Where a part of such wages accruing to the minor has been actually transferred by him to such third person, the father is entitled to recover the same in a suit against the third person.

3. The verdict for the plaintiff was properly directed.

Judgment affirmed.

Jenkins, P. J., and Bell, J., conour.

Action for money had and received; from Hancock superior court — Judge Park. June 22, 1921.

Burwell & Fleming, for plaintiff in error.

B. H. Lewis, contra.