Jones v. Lynds
New York Court of Chancery
This was an application for an injunction to restrain the agent and keepers of the state prison at Auburn from permitting any of the convicts to labor for the defendants Parsons & Hewson, or for any other person except the complainant, at the cabinet or chair making business.
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This was an application for an injunction to restrain the agent and keepers of the state prison at Auburn from permitting any of the convicts to labor for the defendants Parsons & Hewson, or for any other person except the complainant, at the cabinet or chair making business. It appeared from the bill and affidavits in the case that in March, 1834, Dunham, the then agent of the state prison, made a contract with John Seymour to hire and let to the latter, for five years from the first of November preceding, the labor of sixty convicts, fifty of whom were to be cabinet and chair makers and…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
Independent of the questions arising upon the merits of this case, there are very great difficulties in the way of granting the preliminary injunction as asked for by the complainant; the immediate effect of which *305would be to throw these convicts out of employment, in violation of the laws of the state which require them to be kept at hard labor pursuant to their several sentences; or to compel the officers of the prison to continue them in laboring for the complainant without any contract having been made with him for their employment, and without the assent of the inspectors…
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