Alabama Mills, Inc. v. Brand

LAWSON, Justice.

On July 29, 1946, Manuel N. Brand was an employee of the Alabama Mills, Inc., working at its Clanton mill as a “tying-in operator.” Alabama Mills, Inc., was engaged in the manufacture of textile products. Around one o’clock on that day Brand was “paid off” and given a separation notice, upon which appears the following notation: “Discharged for refusing to run his regular assigned job. Employee states that he is unable to do heavy lifting and asked his overseer to either give him a helper or if he could not give him a helper discharge him and hire a man that could do the work.”