Raleigh, Oct. 18—Selling tobacco on the auction floors of Wilson, N.C., in the face of an injunction requiring its delivery to the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, will cost E.S. Lamb, prominent farmer of Johnston County, 20 days in jail and a $50 fine, according to the decision of Superior Court Judge M.V. Barnhill at Goldsboro today.
According to the sentence of Judge Barnhill, Lamb also will be required to pay his own board and lodging while serving his sentence for contempt of court, which begins on December 1, in order that he may harvest his crop before going to jail.
Lamb, who raised 24 acres of tobacco, according to the testimony, was enjoyed from delivering his 1923 crop outside of the tobacco association, of which he had signed the marketing contract, but ignored the injunction in spite of advice that he would be jailed for contempt of court.
This is the second case this fall in which tobacco farmers have gone to jail for having willfully sold tobacco outside their association after being enjoined by the court.
Close to 3.5 million pounds of tobacco were delivered to cooperative houses in the old tobacco belt and Eastern North Carolina. This week numbers of farmers in Virginia and North Carolina are also sending in contracts to Raleigh for the delivery of their 1924 and 1926 crops to the association.
From the front page of the Sunday morning New Bernian and also The Goldsboro News, Oct. 19, 1924
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