New Hampshire Revised Statutes 301:48 – Interference by Warehousemen
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 301:48
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
Any person, firm or corporation conducting a warehouse within this state who solicits or persuades or knowingly permits any member of any association organized hereunder to breach his marketing contract with the association by accepting or receiving such member’s products for sale or for auction or for display for sale, contrary to the terms of any marketing agreement of which said person or any member of the said firm or any active officer or manager of the said corporation has knowledge or notice, shall be liable to the association aggrieved in a civil suit in the penal sum of $500 for each such offense; and such association may apply to the superior court for an injunction against such warehouseman to prevent further breaches and a multiplicity of actions thereon. In addition said warehouseman shall pay to the association a reasonable attorney’s fee and all costs involved in any such litigation or proceeding at law.