Wortham v. Beaver-Lois Mills

1. An agreement by an employer with the wife of an employee, in the presence of the employee, whereby the employer agreed to pay to the wife of the employee, an amount of money equivalent to the employee's salary, and to furnish counsel to the employee when needed, and to furnish a home for the employee's family, such money to be paid and such home furnished so long as the wife was deprived of the support usually afforded by her husband by reason of the performance of his duties as watchman or marshal of a mill village, is void as being contrary to public policy, if it was intended to cover…