Cato v. Grendel Cotton Mills

Mr. Justice Marion:

I concur in the opinion of Mr. Acting Associate Justice Johnson, but desire to state the *462reasons for my conclusion from a slightly different viewpoint.

In the last analysis, appellant’s position is this: By virtue of a custom not to pay discharged employees until they vacate the houses furnished them, Cato impliedly contracted that in the event of his discharge his earned wages should become due and payable, not immediately upon his discharge, as the statute (Section 5592, Vol. 3, Code 1922) requires, but upon or after the vacation of the house furnished him by the Mills as…