Jones v. Dowling

WEBB, .J.

Defendant, owner of a plantation, and plaintiff entered into an agreement under which the latter was to plant, cultivate, and harvest a crop of cotton on defendant’s plantation; defendant to furnish stock, farming implements, and fertilizer, and also to advance plaintiff with some supplies, and plaintiff agreed that, when he was not employed in working the crop to be planted, he would remain on the .plantation in readiness to do such work on the plantation as defendant should call upon him to do, for which plaintiff would be paid at the rate of $1.50 per day. It was further agreed…