Pick's Auto Parts No. 2, Inc. v. Hodge's Auto Parts

REDMANN, Judge.

Defendant automobile parts seller appeals from an injunction obtained by a competitor ordering defendant to keep its business closed on Sunday. We reverse.

La.R.S. 51 ¡191-192 requires Sunday closing of all businesses, with a multitude of exceptions (of which defendant argues “livery stables” includes automobile parts stores1).

*548Assuming that R.S. 51:191-192 survived the enactment of R.S. 51:194 by Acts 1962 No. 273 (whose title and body may suggest an intent to exhaustively legislate regarding, in the title’s own words, all “commodities, products and other . goods which shall not…