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116 Ga. 799

Wright v. Mayor

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided December 13, 1902

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1902-12-13

<p>Certiorari. Before Judge Reagan. Monroe superior court. August 29, 1902.</p>

Decided 1902-12-13

Simmons, C. J.

¶1Where 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.

¶2 Judgment reversed.

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