Wright v. Mayor

Supreme Court of Georgia
Wright v. Mayor, 116 Ga. 799 (Ga. 1902)
43 S.E. 46; 1902 Ga. LEXIS 276
Simmons

Wright v. Mayor

Opinion of the Court

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.

Reference

Full Case Name
Wright v. Mayor and Council of Forsyth
Status
Published