Thompson v. Rutland

Stukes, Justice.

Respondent, an illiterate farm hand, was employed by appellant farm-owner at thirty cents per hour for a sixty-hour week and was furnished a two-room house in which ,he, his pregnant wife and four children lived; he was paid proportionately when he “made” more or less than sixty hours during a week. Respondent quit work about November 1st; appellant took his fuel, upon which he owed a' small balance, shut off water and lights from the house, and when respondent did not immediately vacate, brought ejectment proceedings on Nov. 5, and pending the return date in the court of…