Langan v. Mobile Winn-Dixie, Inc.

MERRILL, Justice.

Appeal from a final decree in a declaratory judgment action together with injunc-tive relief. Appellee sought a determination that its business operations were exempt from the provisions of Tit. 14, § 420, Code 1940, as amended. Appellant City of Mobile has an ordinance, 36-63, which makes it unlawful for any person to violate, within the city, any law of the state, the violation of which is a misdemeanor under state law.

Title 14, § 420, as amended, reads:

“Any person who compels his child, apprentice, or servant to perform any labor on Sunday, except the customary domestic…