McKinnon v. Poole

Appellants, complainants in the court below, filed their bill setting up that they had made a contract of hire with the defendant, Poole, as an employee, by which the complainants were to supply the land, seed, implements, work stock, and such other things as were customary in the community, and that the defendant was to perform the labor necessary to planting, cultivating, and harvesting the crop; alleging that the contract was one between employer and employee, commonly called sharehand or cropper for the year 1925. The bill alleged that the defendant, early in June, abandoned the crop, and…