Article on contract legalities

“Notwithstanding the ‘Black Crook’ managers have been before the courts several times in this city and the days of this spectacle are numbered, we find it once more the subject before Superior Court on the 17th inst. It appears that manager De Pol became some three weeks in errears [sic] (arrears?)  for salaries due several of the dramatic performers and dancers in ‘The Devil’s Auction,’ and Mlle. Sohlke, a premiere danseuse, dropped off the ‘Golden Branch,’ and, in her descent, caught at the ‘Black Crook,’ or, in other words, engaged to appear at Niblo’s Garden in the play of the ‘Black Crook.’ By the evidence before the court we learn that in July last, in Paris, an agreement was entered into between Mr. De Pol and Miss Sohlke, that she would dance for him for a certain time in America, wherever he would want her to, for one thousand francs a month in gold; and she was not to leave him or contract any other engagement to dance without being liable to a penalty. She came here, and, as is well known, achieved a decided reputation as a dancer, but, as she claims, in consequence of Mr. De Pol’s non-compliance with the contract, in not paying her what he ought, and because her reputation as an artist was suffering on account of his alleged insolvency and failure to carry on his theatre successfully, and his ill treatment of her, she left him…”  Continues with full story.