Case ID: ga_116/html/0799-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wright v. Mayor and Council of Forsyth.
    Submitted October 22,
    Decided December 13, 1902.
    Certiorari. Before Judge Reagan. Monroe superior court. August 29, 1902.
    
      Persons & Persons and J. W. Bowden, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Cabaniss & Willingham, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

Where a municipal ordinance declares that “ it shall be unlawful for any barber-shop to be kept, open or to do any business on the Sabbath day,” it is not a violation of such ordinance for the owner of a barbershop to open the door of his shop on the Sabbathi day, go inside, and close the door after him, being engaged, when arrested for a violation of the ordinance, in shining his own shoes. The construction given to similar words used in the Penal Code in regard to keeping open a tippling-house on the Sabbath day will not be extended to a class of houses the business conducted in which is not in itself calculated to create a nuisance or to lead to disorder or a breach of the public peace but which, on the contrary, tends to cleanliness and decency.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lumpkin, P. J., absent.