In re Bossner

Citations

• 18 Idaho 519
• 110 P. 502
• 1910 Ida. LEXIS 53

Syllabus

<p>Sunday Best Law — Public Amusements — Moving Picture Show— Statutory Construction.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the reporter.)</p> <p>1. A moving picture show or exhibition comes within the inhibition of see. 6825, Bev. Codes, which forbids the opening or conducting upon Sunday of “any theater, playhouse. . . . circus or show. ... or any such place of public amusement.”</p> <p>2. Words used in a statute without any technical meaning or application should be given their ordinary significance as they are popularly understood, and the language used by the legislature must be construed in the light of the common acceptation of the terms employed.</p>