DePol v. Sohlke

As the law now stands in England and this state a court of equity will not enforce the specific performance of a contract for the rendition of mere personal services. The temporary injunction in question cannot, therefore, be sustained as a means of enforcing such performace. If there is no other ground for sustaining it, it must be dissolved. This injunction, however, was sued out to prevent the defendant Sohlke from violating a'covenant not to render her personal services as a danseuse to persons other than the plaintiffs, on the ground that her breach of that covenant would inflict…