9-5-7. When breach of contract for personal services enjoined.

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Generally an injunction will not issue to restrain the breach of a contract for personal services unless the services are of a peculiar merit or character and cannot be performed by others.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Civil Code 1895, § 4919; Civil Code 1910, § 5496; Code 1933, § 55-107.

History of Section.: The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Bur-ney v. Ryle & Co., 91 Ga. 701, 17 S.E. 986 (1893).

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