Case Name: Wright v. Mayor and Council of Forsyth
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1902-12-13
Citations: 116 Ga. 799
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wright v. Mayor and Council of Forsyth.
Judges: All the Justices concurring, except Lumpkin, P. J., absent.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 116
Pages: 799–799

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.