State v. Gelpi

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The defendant was charged with violating the statute requiring stores, saloons arid all places of public business to be closed, and forbidding the proprietors of these places and their employees from making any sales on Sundays. He avers that an incorporated social club is not a “place of public business;” that furnishing liquors and refreshments exclusively to the members at • graduated scale of prices, without view to profit, is not the occupation or employment the law intended to prohibit as a measure to secure to-employers and employees a…