McCormick v. Blum
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of" Washington county. Hon. F. A. Montgomery, Judge. J. B. McCormick, who was the manager of Mrs. M. G. Smith’s plantation during the year 1893, and to whom, as such, she had become indebted in the sum of $615 for his salary for that year, brought suit against' Abe Blum for the value of twenty-four bales of cotton, produced under his management of the plantation and alleged to have been taken and converted by Blum to his use while, as the plaintiff…
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From the circuit court of" Washington county. Hon. F. A. Montgomery, Judge. J. B. McCormick, who was the manager of Mrs. M. G. Smith’s plantation during the year 1893, and to whom, as such, she had become indebted in the sum of $615 for his salary for that year, brought suit against' Abe Blum for the value of twenty-four bales of cotton, produced under his management of the plantation and alleged to have been taken and converted by Blum to his use while, as the plaintiff alleged, it was subject to plaintiff’s statutory lien as an employe. Among other defenses interposed, was one that the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
The cotton on which it is contended for appellant that he had a lien, as overseer or manager of the plantation on which the same was raised under his charge and management, was shipped by appellant himself from that plantation to the market of Greenville, and for the purpose of being sold in that market. It was accordingly, after being received by the consignee at Greenville, placed in the hands of N. Goldstein & Co. (a firm of which it appears appellee was a member), cotton factors at Greenville, for the purpose of sale, and the same was accordingly so sold by Goldstein & Co., and the…
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