Thompson v. Passmore

I can not concur with my associates. It is true that the part of the crop which comes to the cropper is in the nature of wages; still I think that the very nature of this contract puts him in that class of working people who are regarded by the law as contractors or quasi-contractors, and excludes him from the class designated in the exemption laws as “journeymen mechanics and day-laborers.” The distinction here asserted does not depend upon whether the work is chiefly manual or is largely intellectual, nor upon whether it is performed in the sun or shade, but upon the nature of the business…