Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Alabama Ancient Free & Accepted Masons v. Allen

The law does not give to a creditor the right to appropriate the labor or personal services of a debtor for the satisfaction of his debt. From this it results, as is thoroughly well settled by our decisions, that a debtor may give, his labor or services as a gratuity to another, and, when he chooses to do so, a creditor cannot subject the proceeds or profits therefrom to the satisfaction of his debt, nor in any way charge the donee therewith. Hoot v. Sorrell, 11 Ala. 386, 407; Stein v. Robertson, 30 Ala. 286, 296; Alexander v. Pollock, 72 Ala. 137; Carter v. Worthington, 82 Ala. 334, 339, 2…