Jeter v. Penn’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““He was merely to receive a certain portion ’ of whatever crops might be made on the plantation, irrespective of any profits which the crops might result in. He was, therefore, a mere employee, to be paid in a portion of the crops instead of a certain sum of money. Being an employee he could be discharged for cause.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holmes v. Payne