Lumbley v. Thomas

Citations

• 65 Miss. 97

Syllabus

<p>Laborer. General, for wages. IAen on crop prepared for marhet.</p> <p>One employed on a plantation as a wage hand and general laborer, and who aids in producing, gathering and ginning cotton grown on the plantation, has a lien on such cotton for his wages for all the work done by him as such general laborer, including labor having no reference to the cotton as well as that bestowed upon it, by virtue of Sec. 1360,. Code of 1880, which provides that “ Every laborer who may aid by his labor to make, gather or prepare for sale or market any crop shall have a lien on the interest of the person who contracts with him for such labor, for his wages, whatever may the kind of wages; and such lien shall be paramount to all liens or encumbrances or rights of any kind created by or against the person so contracting for such assistance.”</p>