Farrow v. Wooley & Jordan
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Marshall Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Action by Wooley & Jordan against T. L. Farrow. From a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, defendant appeals. The subject of the controversy, together with all the facts necessary to an understanding of the opinion, sufficiently appear from the opinion.
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Appeal from Marshall Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Action by Wooley & Jordan against T. L. Farrow. From a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, defendant appeals. The subject of the controversy, together with all the facts necessary to an understanding of the opinion, sufficiently appear from the opinion. A number of charges were asked and refused to the defendant, but the only one necessary to be here set out is charge 6, and is as follows: “The court charges the jury that at the time this cotton was ginned it belonged solely to John P. Tillman, and before the plaintiffs can…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, J. —
This was an action by the appellee against the appellant; one count- being in trover and the other trespass for taking two bales of cotton. The facts are that one Tillman furnished the land and team, and Pratt furnished the labor, to -make a crop, and they were to divide the crop in equal proportions. This, according to our statute, was a contract of hire, under which the. crop belonged to Tillman and Pratt had a lien on it “for the value of the portion of the crop to which he was entitled.” — Code 1896, § 2712. The plaintiffs made advances to said Pratt during the year 1898, and…
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