Hamby & Toomer v. Georgia Iron & Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Before Judge Pendleton. Fulton superior court. June 12, 1906. The petition of the Georgia Iron & Coal Company against Hamby & Toomer, and Clement A. Evans, Joseph S. Turner, and Thomas Eason, the three last-named defendants composing the prison commission of the State of Georgia, alleged, in substance, as follows: On October 22, 1903, the State of Georgia, through the prison commission, entered into a contract with Hamby & Toomer, under the act of the ^General…
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Injunction. Before Judge Pendleton. Fulton superior court. June 12, 1906. The petition of the Georgia Iron & Coal Company against Hamby & Toomer, and Clement A. Evans, Joseph S. Turner, and Thomas Eason, the three last-named defendants composing the prison commission of the State of Georgia, alleged, in substance, as follows: On October 22, 1903, the State of Georgia, through the prison commission, entered into a contract with Hamby & Toomer, under the act of the ^General Assembly approved December 21, 1897, and the amendatory act approved August 17, 1903, by which contract the labor of 500…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
1.. The act of 1897 creating the prison commission authorized the hirer of convicts to sublet the convicts by and with the consent of the commission, provided there was no addir tional expense to the State. Acts of 1897, p. 76. This act was .amended by the act of 1903 (Acts of 1903, p. 66), which provides: '“No lessee of convicts as herein provided for shall sublease any of ■said convicts to any person other than such as shall be approved by .said commission, and only upon such terms as said commission shall prescribe.” This provision contains a negative pregnant, and really declares that a…
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