22-2624. INDUCING BREACH OF MARKETING CONTRACT — SPREADING FALSE REPORTS ABOUT FINANCES OR MANAGEMENT — PENALTIES. Any person or persons or any corporation whose officers or employees knowingly induces or attempts to induce any member or stockholder of an association organized hereunder to breach his marketing contract with the association, or who maliciously and knowingly spreads false reports about the finances or management thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $500 for such offense and shall be liable to the association aggrieved in a civil suit in the penal sum of $500 for each offense.
History:
[(22-2624) 1921, ch. 124, sec. 24, p. 298; I.C.A., sec. 22-2024.]