Court Decision by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 11, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 11.

Court Decision

By Editor

Court Decision.—A correspondent sends us a copy of the Bulletin of Bureau of Labor No. 69, March, 1907, in which is given a decision of the Supreme Court on Sunday legislation in Georgia. The law passed upon prohibits the running of freight and excursion trains within the state on Sunday. The decision does not pass upon the religious feature of the law, but declares that it is a rule of civil duty coming within police regulation of the state. Congress has not legislated upon the subject, and therefore the Supreme Court does not feel called upon to pass upon it. It holds, therefore, that the law is constitutional, and affirms the decision of the lower court that it is a police regulation.