Gleaton v. Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills

The plaintiff sued for a week’s wages earned by him in the employment of the defendant. He seeks here to review a judgment in the lower court in favor of the defendant. He had agreed, in the contract of employment, that he would not quit, work without giving his employer one week’s notice of his intention to do so, and that if he did quit without notice, his employer-should retain one week’s wages as liquidated damages. He worked throughout the week, but on Sunday was arrested, and as he naively expresses it in his testimony, did not regain his liberty until more-than two months later. As to…