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Show The Sunday 'Laws in Ruods Island In the case of Smith againcti Rollins the supreme court ol Rhode Island recently upheld the Sunday laws: "A statute was io force providing that 'every person who shall dour exerc'se any labor or business, or work of his ordinary calling, on the first day of the week or suir.-r the same to be done by his children, yervaut, or apprentices, ap-prentices, work of necessity and charity only exc.ep'pd, Bhall be fiued not exceeding .' a livery stable keeper let, in his ordinary business, a horse and carriage to be driven fur pleasure to a particular place. The hirer drove them to a diflerent place, and returned them damaged, whereupon the stable keeper brouynt trover against the hirer. It wan held that u,e aClioi, would not lie. Where a piainlill's cause ot action arises from a viola-lion viola-lion of law on his part the suit can not be sustained, and it is immal. rial whether the violation of law uppers from the plaintiff's direct evidence or is elicited from him by legitimate cress-examination." |