This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
Statutes making it a crime to break a contract to farm on shares or perform labor after supplies have been advanced thereunder,1 or to sell personalty subject to a landlord's lien,2 or t» refuse to pay an account for board,3 have been held valid, as not amounting to imprisonment for debt.
Coal Co. v. Polland, 158 Ind. 607; 92 Am. St. Rep. 319; 62 N. E. 492; Durant v. Mining Co., 97 Mo. 62; 10 S. W. 484; Greenlee v. Ry., 122 N. C. 977; 65 Am. St. Rep. 734; 41 L. R. A. 399; 30 S. E. 115; Kil-patrick v. Ry., 74 Vt. 288; 93 Am. St. Rep. 887; 52 Atl. 531.
2 Shaver v. Pennsylvania Co., 71 Fed. 931. Contra, Pittsburg, etc., Ry. v. Montgomery, 152 Ind. 1; 49 N. E. 582.
1 Hooper v. California, 155 U. S. 648; Commonwealth v. Rosw,ell, 173 Mass. 119; 53 N. E. 132.
2 People v. Gay, 107 Mieh. 422; 80 L. R. A. 464; 65 N. W. 292.
3 State v. Harrington, 68 Vt. 622; 34 L. R. A. 100; 35 Atl. 515.
4 Bessette v. People, 193 111. 334; 56 L. R. A. 558; 62 N. E. 215.
5 Commonwealth v. Vrooman, 164 Pa. St. 306; 44 Am. St. Rep. 603; 25 L. R. A. 250; 30 Atl. 217.
6 State v. Scougal, 3 S. D. 55; 44 Am. St. Rep. 756; 15 L. R. A. 477; 51 N. W. 858.
1 State v. Easterlin, 61 S. C. 71; 39 S. E. 250; State v. Chapman, 56 S. C. 420; 76 Am. St. Rep. 557; 34 S. E. 961.
2 State v. Hoskins, 106 Tenn. 430; 61 S. W. 781.
3 Chauncey v. State, 130 Ala. 71;
 
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