Williams v. Link

Citations

• 64 Miss. 641

Syllabus

<p>1. “Laboree.” Meaning of in % 1244, Code of 1880. Wages exempted.</p> <p>The “laborer,” whose wages to the amount of one hundred dollars are exempt from garnishment by $ 1244, Code of 1880, is one who subsists by physical toil in distinction from one who subsists by professional skill. Where physical toil is the main ingredient of services rendered, although directed and made more valuable by skill, the person performing it is a laborer within the meaning of the statute.</p> <p>2. “LABORER.” Exemption of clerMs wages. Section 1244, Code of 1880, applied.</p> <p>The wages of a laborer engaged, as a clerk in a mercantile store, to the amount of one hundred dollars, are exempt from garnishment by virtue of the provision of $ 1244, Code of 1880, exempting a laborer’s wages to that extent.</p>