Case ID: ga_64/html/0438-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jackson, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lindsay vs. Lowe.
    An affidavit to foreclose a laborer’s special lien on the products of his labor in substance alleged, that on the 17th day of September, 1877» he went into the employ of the hirer to work on his farm (describing . it) in making a ci'op; that the contract was for twelve months from date of contract at eleven dollars and sixty-six and two-thirds cents per months; that he has fully completed and worked out that time; that the employer is now due him one hundred and twenty-eight •dollars and eighty cents for his labor on said farm; that he made a crop of wheat and corn thereon under the contract, which the employer has in possession on said land; that no demand has been made on him since the debt became due for the reason that the employer was absent from the county when the contract was completed and the debt became due, and is still absent and likely to be for some time from his residence in said county; that he raised by his labor the corn grown this year on the land described aforesaid, and also the wheat, to-wit: about fifty-four bushels in said employex-’s possession, and that he slaims a special lien on the same for the payment of said debt, and that the foreclosure of the lien is within twelve months from the time the debt- became due, the affidavit being dated the 9th of November, 1878:
    
      Held, 1. That the affidavit makes a sufficient allegation that the contract of labor was completed by the affiant.
    '2. That the excuse for not making demand for payment alleged is sufficient.
    3. That the allegation is sufficient to show that the wheat was raised under the contract and during the time employed.
    4. That the demurrer thereto was properly overruled. Code, §§1975, 1991.
   Jackson, Justice.