Any person, firm or corporation who knowingly solicits or persuades any member of any association organized or operating in this state under due authority 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, or for processing or otherwise handling, contrary to the terms of any agreement of which said person or any active officer or manager of the said corporation had knowledge or notice, shall be liable, to the association aggrieved in a civil action for any actual damages sustained by reason thereof. Such association may, upon proper application in a civil action, obtain a temporary injunction against any violation of the provisions of this act, which may be made permanent upon proper proof.

Laws 1937, p. 267, § 20; Amended by Laws 1955, p. 97, § 1, emerg. eff. May 23, 1955; Amended by Laws 1957, p. 10, § 1.