Goode v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Section 1. Any person in this State who shall contract with another to perform any labor or service and who shall, by reason of such contract and with the intent to injure and defraud, obtain or procure money or other thing of value as a credit or advances from the person so contracted with and who shall, without just cause, fail or refuse to perform such labor or service or fail or refuse to pay for the money or other thing of value so received upon demand, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months. “Sec. 2. That Chapter 5678, Acts of 1907, be and the same is hereby repealed. “Sec. 3. That all laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pollock v. Williams

2. “As 'involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted/ is forbidden ‘within the United States’ by the Federal Constitution, a crime to be punished by imprisonment cannot lawfully be predicated upon the breach of a promise to perform labor or service.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pollock v. Williams