Silverberg Bros. v. Douglass

The defendants, the mayor and chief of police of Niagara Falls, threaten to arrest the plaintiffs for keeping open their clothing store on Sunday, in violation of the provisions of section 267 of the Penal Code, which reads as follows: “All manner of public selling or offering for

sale of any property upon Sunday is prohibited, except that articles of food may be sold and supplied at any time before ten o’clock in tho morning, and except also that meals may be sold to be eaten on the premises where sold or served elsewhere by caterers; and prepared tobacco, milk, ice and soda water in places…