The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-03-25
CRECFlIUS BILL.
Governor Signs Bill, Which Rem
derS the Sale or Purchase of
Fooled Wheat, Tobacco and
Other Products.

BE ii enacted by the General rs.
'semby Of the Commonwealth o.
Kentucky:
Section 1. That section 3 of ar
act entitled an act permitting
persons to- combine or pool their
crops.o of wheat, tobacco and other
products and sell same as whole
and mating contracts in pursuance
thereof valid, approved March /,
1905, being chapter III of the acts
OF the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky for
year 1906, be and the same is here
by amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:
Such persons so entering into
such an agreement or contract as
is set out in the foregoing sections
are hereby permitted to select an
agent or agents through or by or
with whom said parties so enter
ing into such agreement may clas-
sify, grade, store, hold, sell, or
dispose of said crop, or any of
them, and said agent or agents
shall have the right to take, re-
ceive, hold, store, classify, grade,
sell, or dispose of said crop so
placed in said agreement, for the
purpose of accomplishing the OBJ
(Ject of such combination or agree
ment between such principals, and
contracts and agreements en-
tered into by such agent or agents
for the purpose of classifying,
grading, storing, holding, selling
or disposing of said crop so-a ~.
bined, united or pooled, either in
parcel or as whole, are hereby
permitted, and shall not, because
of any such combination or pur-
pose of such original agreement of
such principals SO entering into
said combination, or of such agent
or agents, be delared illegal or in
valid. All contracts heretofore
made by any person or persons for
the purpose set out in the forego-
nX(g sections are hereby declared
valid, if otherwise legally binding
on the parties. To prevent any
breach or violation of any contract
made for the purpose set out in
the foregoing sections restrain
ing order and writ of injunction
may be issued by proper officer,
as prescribed in the civil code of |
practice.
For any breach or violation of
any contract entered into for the
purposes set out in the fore
going sections, the injured party
may recover the damages sustained
by him by reason of such viola
ton of such contract of the person
violating the same, and also of any
person who shall induce or per-
suade another to violate such con-
tract, which damages shall include
the reasonable expense and attor-
news fees incurred by the injured
party in prosecuting an action to
recover such damages, or to pre-
vent violation of such contract,
if the party complaining shall sue
cead in doing so, which may be
recovered in the same action or
original proceeding. Said agent
when so selected as herein, pro-
yided shall have the sole right to
sell said crop so pooled or COM
bined, and it shall be unlawful for
any owner of such crop to sell or
dispose of same and for any. per-
son knowingly to purchase the same
without the written consent of such
agsyht and upon conviction thereof
he or they shall be fined in any sum
or amount not exceeding two hun
dred and fifty dollars for each
offense to be fixed by the jury in
their discretion.
Section 2. Whereas, m any
crops of tobacco and other prod
nets have been combined and
.nooled in this State under contract
and agreement entered into for the
purpose set out in the above sec
tion. an emergency is now de-
s.lared to exist which requires that
shis act should ard shall take
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