Cox v. White

1. Where a landlord furnishes to his cropper everything to make the crop, except labor (which is furnished by the cropper, his family, and others employed by him), the net amount due the cropper after full settlement with the landlord is in the nature of wages paid to day laborers (Thompson v. Passmore, 9 Ga. App. 771, 72 S. E. 185; McElmurray v. Turner, 86 Ga. 215, 12 S. E. 359); and, under the provisions of section 5298 of the Civil Code of 1910, as amended by act of August 14, 1914 (Ga. L. 1914, p. 62), only fifty per cent, of the excess of $1.25 per day of all wages of a laborer is…