Case ID: ga_102/html/0852-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Atkinson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Watson v. Williams.
    Argued October 27,
    Decided November 26, 1897.
    Certiorari. Before Judge Sweat. Ware superior court. July 30, 1897.
    
      C. C. Thomas, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Toomer & Reynolds, contra.
   Atkinson, J.

It appearing that an employer had discharged an employee* and tendered him his wages up to the date of his discharge, and requested him to sign a receipt in full for the wages then due, and that the latter refused to sign such receipt, upon a suit to recover such wages the employee is not entitled to recover attorney’s fees upon the ground that the-defendant was “stubbornly litigious.” Direction is given that the attorney’s fees he written off the judgment and it stand affirmed. It is* further directed that the defendant in error in this court pay the costs-which have accrued since the date of the judgment in the court below..

Judgment affirmed, with direction.

All the Justices concurring.