Legal Opinion

Barron v. Collins

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 15, 1873PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Contracts. Master and servant. This case is sufficiently reported in the head-note.

1Opinion of the Court

McCay, Judge.

The demurrer to this declaration was properly-sustained. The contract set out between the plaintiff and Charles Barron is not a contract of service. It' does not appear that the labor of Charles Barron’s two daughters, and of George Barron, belonged to Charles.' As the contract stands, it is a contract of Charles Barron to furnish himself and three others, to crop with the plaintiff; he, Charles, not the laborers, to get one-third and plaintiff two-thirds of the crop. This did not make Charles and the hands he furnished, the servants of the plaintiff. As the contract is set…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Employing Printers Club v. Doctor Blosser Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1905
  2. Vinson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
  3. State v. . EtheridgeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1915

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