Cassady v. Hiatt & Lee

ADAMS, J.:

This is an appeal from a final decree enjoining the collection of unemployment contributions for the years 1939-40 under the Florida Unemployment Compensation Law.

The decree was entered on an agreed statement of facts substantially as follows: Appellee was engaged in a business which might be termed grove management; it contracted with grove owners to cultivate and maintain citrus groves; to fulfill its contracts it employed laborers.

The only question is whether: “the term ‘Agricultural Labor,’ as the same is used in the Florida Unemployment Compensation Law prior to July 1, 1941,…