Legal Opinion

Oliver v. Macon Hardware Co.

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 23, 1896PublishedCited by 41 opinions

Intervention. Before Judge Hardeman. Bibb superior court. April term, 1895.

1Opinion of the Court

Lumpkin, Justice.

Some confusion lias arisen in the decisions of tbis court with reference to tbe question whether or not a “clerk” employed in a store, .office, or other place of business, is a “laborer” within the meaning of sections 1974 and 3554 *250of the code — the former giving “laborers” a general lien for their labor upon the property of their employers, and the latter exempting the wages of “laborers” from the process of garnishment.

In Butler, McCarty & Co. v. Clark & Co., 46 Ga. 466, the question arose as to whether the wages of one employed in a mill as “receiving and shipping clerk,”…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. L. M. Wiley, Parish & Co. v. KelseySupreme Court of Georgia · 1853
  2. Smith v. JohnstonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1884
  3. Abrahams v. AndersonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1888
  4. Claghorn & Cunningham v. SaussySupreme Court of Georgia · 1874
  5. Lamar v. ChisholmSupreme Court of Georgia · 1886

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3Cited by41 opinions

  1. City of Phoenix v. YatesArizona Supreme Court · 1949
  2. Toole v. Edmondson & Seay Bros.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1898
  3. Harris v. Mayor of BaltimoreCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1926
  4. Devney's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
  5. Tuck v. Moss Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1907

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