Lumbley v. Thomas
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Yazoo County. Hon. T. J. Wharton, Judge. In 1886, J. M. Thomas was employed by one Smith on his plantation. Smith agreed to pay Thomas twenty dollars per month. The business of Thomas during the year was plowing', hoeing, chopping wood, hauling cotton, working in the blacksmith shop, running the engine and ginning the cotton. Thomas assisted in making, gathering and ginning certain cotton grown on the plantation of Smith.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Yazoo County. Hon. T. J. Wharton, Judge. In 1886, J. M. Thomas was employed by one Smith on his plantation. Smith agreed to pay Thomas twenty dollars per month. The business of Thomas during the year was plowing', hoeing, chopping wood, hauling cotton, working in the blacksmith shop, running the engine and ginning the cotton. Thomas assisted in making, gathering and ginning certain cotton grown on the plantation of Smith. This cotton was seized by R. W. Lumbley, trustee, under a deed of trust executed by Smith in favor of Kling. & Co., merchants. Thereupon…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
Thomas was employed as a wages hand, and general laborer, and aided by his labor to prepare for market the cotton in controversy, and by §1360 of the Code had a lien on it.
Affirmed.
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