Welsh v. Shields

This is a suit brought by an overseer against his employer, for the amount of bis salary. The petition states, that the defendant, Shields, owes the plaintiff the sum of $900, for his services, as an overseer on Shields’ plantation, during the year 1841 ; that said plantation has been lately transferred and delivered into the possession of R. R. Barrow, the other defendant, who has it in his possession, as well as the whole crop raised thereon during the year 1842; and that the petitioner has in law, alien on the crop taken off in 1842, as well as on all the stubble cane which may be in the…