Nelson v. Fuqua

This case arose on a money-rule involving priority between a landlord’s lien and a laborer’s lien. Hooks, dealing with Fuqua as agent of Mrs. Lowery, rented from her a farm for the year 1931. Finding it necessary to move away from the rented premises, he hired Nelson, the laborer, to work and gather the crop. The testimony for the laborer was: that some time in January, 1931, and soon after making the contract with Hooks, Nelson went to Fuqua as agent of Mrs. Lowery, the landlord, and “the manager- of all her business,” who had rented the land to Hooks, and told Fuqua of his trade with Hooks,…